ANTONY FRANCIS VAN DER MEULEN (1634–1...
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Originally appearing in Volume
V18,
Page 315
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ANTONY See also:FRANCIS See also:VAN DER See also:MEULEN (1634–1690)
, Flemish painter, See also:born in See also:Brussels, was called to See also:Paris about 1666 by See also:Colbert, at the instance of Le Brun, to fill the See also:post of See also:battle painter to See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV
.
His paintings during the See also:campaigns of See also:Flanders (1667) so delighted Louis that from that date See also:Van der See also:Meulen was ordered to accompany him in all his expeditions
.
In 1673 he was received into the See also:French See also:Academy, attained the grade of councillor in 1681, and died full of honours in Paris in 169o
.
He is best represented by the See also:series of twenty-three paintings, mostly executed for Louis XIV., now in the Louvre
.
The show that he always retained his Flemish predilections in point of See also:colour, although his See also:style was modified by that of the French school
.
End of Article: ANTONY FRANCIS VAN DER MEULEN (1634–1690)
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