Louis Belanger (painter)

After working as a landscape painter in several countries; including Italy, where he probably lived in Rome from 1780 to 1785, he returned to France, but was there for only a short time before the outbreak of the Revolution.

At some point in 1790, he moved to London, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy and created works intended for making into prints.

He finally settled in Stockholm in 1798, where he quickly established himself; becoming a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and winning an appointment as a court painter.

For many years, he was planning a large album to be called Voyage pittoresque de la Suède, that would present all of his best landscapes in aquatint, working in conjunction with a now little-known artist named Louis J.

Ultimately, only nineteen were engraved and included in a book with seven works by Johan Adam von Gerdten [sv].