See also:FERDINAND See also:VICTOR See also:EUGENE See also:DELACROIX (1798-1863)
, See also:French See also:historical painter, See also:leader of the Romantic See also:movement, was See also:born at Charenton-St-See also:Maurice, near See also:Paris, on the 26th of See also:April 1798
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His See also:father See also:Charles See also:Delacroix (1741–1805) was a See also:partisan of the most violent See also:faction during the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the Revolution, and was See also:foreign See also:minister under the See also:Directory
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The See also:family affairs seem to have been conducted in the wildest manner, and the accidents that befell the See also:child, well authenticated as they are said to be, make it almost a See also:miracle that he survived
.
He was first nearly burned to See also:death in the See also:cradle by a See also:nurse falling asleep over a novel and the See also:candle dropping on the coverlet; this See also:left permanent marks on his arms and See also:face
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He was next dropped into the See also:sea by another bonne, who was climbing up a See also:ship's See also:side to see her See also:lover
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He was nearly poisoned, and nearly choked, and, to See also:crown all, he tried to hang himself, without any thought of See also:suicide, in See also:imitation of a See also:print exhibiting a See also:man in that position of final ignominy
.
The prediction of a See also:charlatan founded on his horoscope has been preserved: " Cet enfant deviendra un homme celebre, mais sa See also:vie sera See also:des plus laborieuses, des plus tourmentees, et toujours livree a la See also:contradiction."
Delacroix the See also:elder (also known as Delacroix de Contaut) died at See also:Bordeaux when See also:Eugene was seven years of See also:age, and his See also:mother returned to Paris and placed him in the Lycee See also:Napoleon
.
Afterwards, on his determining to be a painter, he entered the atelier of See also:Baron See also:Guerin, who affected to treat him as an See also:amateur
.
His See also:fellow-See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil was Ary See also:Scheffer, who was alike by temperament and antecedents the opposite of the bizarre Delacroix, and the two remained antagonistic to the end of See also:life
.
Delacroix's acknowledged See also:power and yet want of success with artists and critics—See also:Thiers being his only See also:advocate—perhaps mainly resulted from his bravura and See also:rude dash in the use of the See also:brush, at a time when smooth roundness of See also:surface was See also:general
.
His first important picture, " See also:Dante and See also:Virgil, " was painted in his own studio; and when Guerin went to see it he flew into a See also:passion, and told him his picture was absurd, detestable, exaggerated
.
" Why ask me to come and see this? you knew what I must say." Yet his See also:work was received at the See also:Salon, and produced an See also:enthusiasm of debate (1822)
.
Some said See also:Gericault had worked on it, but all treated it with respect
.
Still in private his position, even after the larger tragic picture, the " See also:Massacre of See also:Chios," hadbeen deposited in the Luxembourg by the See also:government (1824); became that of an Ishmaelite
.
The See also:war for the freedom of See also:Greece then going on moved him deeply, and his next two pictures—" See also:Marino See also:Faliero Decapitated on the See also:Giant's See also:Staircase of the Ducal See also:Palace " (which has always remained a See also:European success), and " Greece Lamenting on the Ruins of See also:Missolonghi "—with many smaller See also:works, were exhibited for the benefit of the patriots in 1826
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This See also:exhibition was much visited by the public, and next See also:year he produced another of his important works, " See also:Sardanapalus," from See also:Byron's See also:drama
.
After this, he says, " I became the See also:abomination of See also:painting, I was refused See also:water and See also:salt,"—but, he adds with singularly happy naivete, " J'etais enchante de moi-meme!" The patrimony he inherited, or perhaps it should be said, what remained of it, was ro,000 livres de rente, and with See also:economy he lived on this, and continued the expensive See also:process of painting large historical pictures
.
In 1831 he reappeared in the Salon with six works, and immediately after left for See also:Morocco, where he found much congenial See also:matter
.
Delacroix never went to See also:Italy; he refused to go on principle, lest the old masters, either in spirit or manner, should impair his originality and self-dependence
.
His greatest admiration in literature was the See also:poetry of Byron; See also:Shakespeare also attracted him for tragic inspirations; and of course classic subjects had their turn of his easel
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He continued his work indefatigably, having his pictures very seldom favourably received at the Salon
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These were sometimes very large, full of incidents, with many figures
.
" See also:Drawing of Lots in the See also:Boat at Sea," from Byron's See also:Don Juan, and the " Taking of See also:Constantinople by the Christians " were of that See also:character, and the former was one of his noblest creations
.
In 1845 he was employed to decorate the library of the Luxembourg, that of the chamber of deputies in 1847, the See also:ceiling of the See also:gallery of See also:Apollo in the Louvre in 1849 and that of the Salon de la Paix in the hotel de ville in 1853
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He died on the 13th of See also:August 1863, and in August 1864 an exhibition of his works was opened on the See also:Boulevard des Italiens
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It contained 174 pictures, many of them of large dimensions, and 303 drawings, showing immense perseverance as well as See also:energy and versatility
.
As a colourist, and a romantic painter, he now ranks among the greatest of French artists
.
See also A
.
Robaut, Delacroix (1885) ; E
.
Dargenty, Delacroix See also:par lui-meme (1885) ; G
.
See also:Moreau, Delacroix et son ceuvre (1893) ; Dorothy See also:Bussy, Eugene Delacroix (19o7)
.
DE LA GARDIE, See also:MAGNUS See also:GABRIEL, See also:COUNT (1622–1686), See also:Swedish statesman, the best-known member of an See also:ancient family of French origin (the D'Escouperies of See also:Languedoc) which had been settled in See also:Sweden since the 14th See also:century
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After a careful See also:education, completed by the usual See also:grand tour, Magnus learned the See also:art of war under Gustavus See also:Horn, and during the reign of See also:Christina (1644-1654), whose See also:prime favourite he became, though the liaison was See also:innocent enough, he was raised to the highest offices in the See also:state and loaded with distinctions
.
In 1646 he was sent at the See also:head of an extraordinary See also:mission to See also:France, and on his return married the See also:queen's See also:cousin See also:Marie See also:Euphrosyne of See also:Zweibrucken, who, being but a poor princess, benefited greatly by her See also:wedding with the richest of the Swedish magnates
.
Immediately afterwards, De la Gardie was made a senator, See also:governor-general of See also:Saxony during the last stages of the See also:Thirty Years' War, and, in 1652, See also:lord high treasurer
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In 1653 he See also:fell into disgrace and had to withdraw from See also:court
.
During the reign of Charles X
.
(1654–166o) he was employed in the Baltic provinces both as a civilian and a soldier, although in the latter capacity he gave the See also:martial See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king but little See also:satisfaction
.
Charles X. nevertheless, in his last will, appointed De la Gardie grand-See also:chancellor and a member of the See also:council of regency which ruled Sweden during the minority of Charles XI
.
(166o-1672)
.
During this See also:period De la Gardie was the ruling spirit of the government and represented the party of warlike See also:adventure as opposed to the party of See also:peace and economy led by See also:Counts See also:Bonde and See also:Brahe (qq.v.)
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After a severe struggle De la Gardie's party finally prevailed, and its See also:triumph was marked by that general decline of See also:personal and See also:political morality which has given to this regency its unenviable reputation
.
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It was De la Gardie who first made Sweden the obsequious hireling of the foreign power which had the longest See also:purse
.
The beginning of this shameful " See also:subsidy policy " was the treaty of See also:Fontainebleau, 1661, by a See also:secret See also:paragraph of which Sweden, in See also:exchange for a consid?rable sum of See also:money, undertook to support the French See also:candidate on the first vacancy of the See also:Polish See also:throne
.
It was not, however, till the 14th of April 1672 that Sweden, by the treaty of See also:Stockholm, became a See also:regular " mercenarius Galliae," pledging herself, in return for 400,000 ecus per annum in peace and 600,000 in war time, to attack with 16,000 men those See also:German, princes who might be disposed to assist See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland
.
The See also:early disasters of the unlucky war of 1675–1699 were rightly attributed to the carelessness, extravagance, procrastination and general incompetence of De la Gardie and his high aristocratic colleagues
.
In 1675 a See also:special See also:commission was appointed to inquire into their conduct, and on the 27th of May 1682 it decided that the regents and the See also:senate were solely responsible for dilapidations of the See also:realm, the See also:compensation due by them to the crown being assessed at 4,000,000 daler or £500,000
.
De la Gardie was treated with relative leniency, but he " received permission to retire to his estates for the See also:rest of his life " and died there in See also:comparative poverty, a See also:mere See also:shadow of his former magnificent self
.
The best sides of his character were his brilliant social gifts and his intense devotion to literature and art
.
See See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin Veibull, Sveriges Storhetstid (Stockholm, 1881); Sv
.
Hist. iv.; See also:Robert Nisbet See also:Bain, Scandinavia (See also:Cambridge, 1905)
.
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.
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.
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