JACQUES See also:ROUSSEAU (1633-1693)
, See also:French painter, a member of a Huguenot See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Paris in 163o
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He was remarkable as a painter of decorative landscapes and classic ruins, somewhat in the See also:style of Canaletto, but without his delicacy of See also:touch; he appears also to have been influenced by See also:Nicolas Poussin
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While See also:young See also:Rousseau went to See also:Rome, where he spent some years in See also:painting the See also:ancient ruins, together with the surrounding landscapes
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He thus formed his style, which was artificial and conventionally decorative
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His colouring for the most See also:part is unpleasing, partly owing to his violent treatment of skies with crude blues and See also:orange, and his See also:chiaroscuro usually is much exaggerated
.
On his return to Paris he soon became distinguished as a painter, and was employed by 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. to decorate the walls of his palaces at St Germain and Marly
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He was soon admitted a member of the French See also:Academy of the See also:Fine Arts, but on the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes he was obliged to take See also:refuge in 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, and his name was struck off the Academy See also:roll
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From Holland he was invited to See also:England by the See also:duke of Montague, who employed him, together with other French painters, to paint the walls of his See also:palace, Montague See also:House (on the site of which is now the See also:British Museum)
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Rousseau was also employed to paint architectural subjects and landscapes in the palace of See also:Hampton See also:Court, where many of his decorative panels still exist
.
He spent the latter part of his See also:life in See also:London, where he died in 1693
.
Besides being a painter in oil and See also:fresco Rousseau was an etcher of some ability; many etchings by his See also:hand from the See also:works of the See also:Caracci and from his own designs still exist; they are vigorous, though coarse in See also:execution
.
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