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SIMON MATHURIN LANTARA (1729-1778)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 185 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMON MATHURIN See also:LANTARA (1729-1778)  , See also:French landscape painter, was See also:born at Oncy on the 24th of See also:March 1729 . His See also:father was a See also:weaver, and he himself began See also:life as a herdboy; but, having attracted the See also:notice of Gille de See also:Reumont, a son of his See also:master, he was placed under a painter at See also:Versailles . Endowed with See also:great facility and real See also:talent, his See also:powers found ready recognition; but he found the constraint of a See also:regular life and the society of educated See also:people unbearably tiresome; and as See also:long as the proceeds of the last See also:sale lasted he lived careless of the future in the See also:company of obscure workmen . See also:Rich amateurs more than once attracted him to their houses, only to find that in ease and high living See also:Lantara could produce nothing . He died in See also:Paris on the 22nd of See also:December 1778 . His See also:works, now much prized, are not numerous; the Louvre has one landscape, " See also:Morning," signed and dated 1761 . See also:Bernard, See also:Joseph See also:Vernet, and others are said to have added figures to his landscapes and See also:sea-pieces . Engravings after Lantara will be found in the works of Lebas, Piquenot, Duret, Mouchy and others . In 1809 a See also:comedy called Lantara, or the Painter in the Pothouse, was brought out at the See also:Vaudeville with great success . See E . Bellier de la Chavignerie, Recherches sur le peintre Lantara (Paris, 1852) .

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