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 LAEGILLIERE LARGILLIERE, NICOLAS, born in Paris, Oct. 10, 1650, died there, March 20, tiste Tavernier, Count Dehu, Brunswick Museum ; Madame Adelaide de France as 1740. French Flora, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Count Sinzen- school; history, dorff, Darmstadt Museum ; Duke de la and portrait ; Eochefoucauld, Portrait of a Man with a painter, pupil Wi, Dresden Museum ; Portraits of the of Ant. Gou- bau at Ant- werp, where his father had settled; r e - Paiuters J. Antoine Arlaud and Hyacinthe Rigaud, Musee Rath, Geneva ; Lady's Por- trait, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Male Por= trait, Schwerin Gallery ; Meeting of Pro- vost and Aldermen of Paris Merchants, ceived into St. ; Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Portraits of Luke's Guild Jean Baptiste Rousseau, and of himself, in 1072. Went />. Uffizi, Florence; to England in 1074, where he restored /fj^f Q tOL>O2/*& Female Portraits pictures of old masters at Windsor, under *J (2), Historical So- Sir Peter Lely's direction, and also painted I x- > > /. ciety. New York- some compositions of his own. In 1678 he Jr~ * / * Bellier, i. 911 ; Ch. went to Paris and gained great reputation Blanc, Ecole francaise ; Houssaye, Gal. du as a portrait painter during the next six xviii. Siecle, i. 214 ; Jal, 737 ; Larousse ; years, after which he returned to England, Dezallier, Peintres ; Van den Branden, 976 ; where lie painted James II. and his queen. Cat. Louvre. Member of the Academy in 1680, professor LARIVIERE, CHARLES PHILIPPE in 1705, rector in 1722, and chancellor in j DE, born in Paris, Sept. 30, 1798, died in 1743. Ch. Blanc says he painted about fif- teen hundred portraits. Works : Banquet given to Louis XIV. in 1087 by City of Paris, Marriage of Duke of Burgundy in 101)7 (destroyed in Revolution) ; An Ex- Voto, St. Ktienne du Mont ; Erection of the Cross, Flight into Egypt, Assumption, Portrait of Charles Le Brun (1080), do. of Count de la Chatre, Provost and Aldermen 1870. History and portrait painter, pupil of Giu'rin, Girodet, and Gros ; won 2d prize in 1819, and grand prix de Rome in 1824. His works, though meritorious, did not ful- fil the promise of his youth. He painted many battle and ceremonial pictures theat- rical in style, also portraits, and designed the cartoons for the Cathedral of Dreux. Medals : 1st class, 1831, 1855 ; L. of Hon- of Merchants of Paris (1087), Artist with i our, 1836. Works : Prisoner in the Capi- his Wife and Daughter, An Alderman (1704), tol visited by his Family (1827); The Plague A Magistrate (1718), Portrait of Du Vaucel (1724), four other portraits, Louvre, Paris ; Portrait of himself, do. and Family, Sculp- tors Nicolas Coustou and Jean Thierry, three others, Versailles Museum ; Portraits in Museums at Arras (2), Avignon, Besan- <;on (2), Chartres, Dijon, Grenoble, Lille (Jean Forest), Mctz, Nancy, Nantes (2), Nimes, Niort, Orleans (himself), Rouen (2), Strassburg, Toulon, Toulouse, Madrid (5) ; Hercules slaying the Hydra, Aschaffenburg Gallery ; Portrait of Jean Forest, Young of Rome (1831), formerly in Luxembourg Museum ; Tasso Sick in the Monastery of St. Onofrio, Two Monks Meditating (1831) ; Interview of Francis I. and Pope Clemens VHI. at Marseilles in 1533, Due d'Orleans arriving at the Hotel de Ville (1836), Battle of the Downs (1837), Bayard wounded at Capture of Brescia (1838), Battle of Coche- rel (1836), Battle of Castillon (1839), Battle of Mons-en-Puelle (1841), Raising of Siege of Malta (1843), Battle of Ascalon (1844), Capture of Bologna, Entry of French into Nobleman ('?), Berlin Museum ; Jean Bap- ! Belgium, Return of the Prince-President to