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JOSEPH MARIE VIEN (1716-1809)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:MARIE See also:VIEN (1716-1809)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Montpellier on the 18th of See also:June 1716 . Protected by See also:Comte de See also:Caylus, he entered at an See also:early See also:age the studio of Natoire, and obtained the See also:grand prix in 1745 . He used his See also:time at See also:Rome in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own See also:powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him; but his tendencies were so See also:foreign to the reigning See also:taste that on his return to See also:Paris he owed his See also:admission to the See also:academy for his picture " See also:Daedalus and Icarus " (Louvre) solely to the indignant protests of See also:Boucher . When in 1776, at the height of his established reputation, he became director of the school of See also:France at Rome, he took See also:David with him amongst his pupils . After his return, five years later, his fortunes were wrecked by the Revolution; but he undauntedly set to See also:work, and at the age of eighty (1796) carried off the See also:prize in an open See also:government competition . See also:Bonaparte acknowledged his merit by making him a senator . He died at Paris on the 27th of See also:March 1809, leaving behind him several brilliant pupils, amongst whom were See also:Vincent, See also:Regnault, Suvee, Menageot, Taillasson and others of high merit; nor should the name of his wife, See also:Marie Therese Reboul (1728-1805), herself a member of the academy, be omitted from this See also:list . Their son, Marie See also:Joseph, born in 1761, also distinguished himself as a painter .

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