Nicolas Vleughels

His father was part of a large community of Flemish artists residing in Paris.

Here he met the famous Dutch vedute painter Caspar van Wittel and the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger at whose marriage he acted as witness in 1704.

[1] Back in Paris Vleughels became a close friend of Jean-Antoine Watteau.

He thus became a pivotal figure in the interchange between French and Italian art and artists in the first third of the eighteenth century.

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