Jean-Baptiste Descamps

[1] Accompanying Charles-André van Loo on a trip to England in 1740–1741 after his training,[1] he formed an acquaintance with Pierre-Robert Le Cornier de Cideville, the friend of Voltaire.

Le Cornier de Cideville, anxious for the honor of his native town of Rouen, persuaded the young artist to select it as the place of his future residence.

[3] As a teacher, he began writing instructional works, most notably his French translations of artist biographies by Karel van Mander and Arnold Houbraken in his 4-volume La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois.

They also had the adverse effect of being used by the French Revolutionary Army, after their invasion of Flanders in 1790, to requisition the best paintings for transport to the Musée Central des Arts in the Louvre, Paris.

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