Pierre-Antoine Quillard

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Not to be confused with Pierre Quillard, the French symbolist poet.
Pierre-Antoine Quillard
Bornc. 1700
Gabriel of Lencastre, 7th Duke of Aveiro, Manuel Teles da Silva, 3rd Marquis of Alegrete
Portrait of the Duke of Cadaval (1728, attributed)
Pastorale (c.1730)

Pierre-Antoine Quillard, ([pjɛʁ.ɑ̃.twan ki.jaʁ]; c. 1700 – 25 November 1733) was a French portrait painter and engraver who worked in Portugal.

Biography

Quillard's father was a woodworker. He began to study art at a very early age, possibly with

Louis XV
, who granted Quillard a pension.

After twice failing to win the

cruzados
per month.

After spending some time working on Merveilleux's Flora, he was able to obtain an appointment as court painter to King John V in 1727. His first assignment was to decorate the ceilings in Queen Maria Anna's apartments.[1] As it turned out, those paintings had a short life, being destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. Together with several other French and Flemish artists, he was commissioned to illustrate publications issued by the Academia Portuguesa de História, which had been founded in 1721.

He worked for the

Duke of Aveiro, he produced twelve screens for the Cathedral of Aveiro, a former Dominican convent.[2]

Because of the huge demand for paintings in Watteau's style that arose after his death in 1721, very few works have been positively identified as Quillard's and a catalogue raisonné has yet to be created.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Brief biography @ the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
  2. ^ Correio do Vouga Archived 2015-05-24 at the Wayback Machine: "Conferência sobre as pinturas do cadeiral da Sé de Aveiro"

Further reading

  • Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [first published in French in 1911–1923].
    ISBN 2-7000-3081-8 – via the Internet Archive
    .
  • John F. Creagh, Pierre-Antoine Quillard (1701/11-1733) and the Attribution to Him of the "Wedding Festivities" in the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, University College Dublin, 1971
  • JSTOR 1553573
  • Eidelberg, Martin (1996). "Quillard, Pierre-Antoine". In Turner, Jane (ed.).
    ISBN 1-884446-00-0
    – via the Internet Archive.
  • Guillaume Glorieux, Pierre Antoine Quillard (1701-1733), peintures, sculptures et gravures: Maîtrise sous la direction d'Antoine Schnapper, Paris-Sorbonne University, 1995

External links

Media related to Pierre-Antoine Quillard at Wikimedia Commons

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