See also: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
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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
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Endowed with See also:great facility and real See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
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
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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
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He died in See also:Paris on the 22nd of See also:December 1778
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His See also:works, now much prized, are not numerous; the Louvre has one landscape, " See also:Morning," signed and dated 1761
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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
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Engravings after Lantara will be found in the works of Lebas, Piquenot, Duret, Mouchy and others
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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
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See E
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Bellier de la Chavignerie, Recherches sur le peintre Lantara (Paris, 1852)
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