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Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (?) (1740 - 1812)

Son of a miniature-painter, Loutherbourg trained in Paris with Charles André van Loo (1705–1765), engraver Jean Georges Wille (1715–1808) and battle-scene painter Francesco Casanova (1727–1803). Inspired by Dutch landscape painters, he participated in the Paris Salon exhibition of 1763. Acclaimed by art critic Denis Diderot, he was appointed “peintre du roi” in 1766, and became a member of the "Académie des Beaux-Arts" in 1768. From 1772, the artist was resident in London, where in 1781 he became a member of the "Royal Academy".

Author: Habersatter Thomas

Literature: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, S. 130

Seascape with Sunset

Seascape with Sunset

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (?)

Inv. no. 437