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LARGILLIÈRE, NICOLAS, born in Paris, Oct. 10, 1656, died there, March 20, 1746. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Ant. Goubau at Antwerp, where his father had settled; received into St. Luke's Guild in 1672. Went to England in 1674, where he restored pictures of old masters at Windsor, under Sir Peter Lely's direction, and also painted some compositions of his own. In 1678 he went to Paris and gained great reputation as a portrait painter during the next six years, after which he returned to England, where he painted James II. and his queen. Member of the Academy in 1686, professor in 1705, rector in 1722, and chancellor in 1743. Ch. Blanc says he painted about fifteen hundred portraits. Works: Banquet given to Louis XIV. in 1687 by City of Paris, Marriage of Duke of Burgundy in 1697 (destroyed in Revolution); An Ex-Voto, St. Étienne du Mont; Erection of the Cross, Flight into Egypt, Assumption, Portrait of Charles Le Brun (1686), do. of Count de la Chatre, Provost and Aldermen of Merchants of Paris (1687), Artist with his Wife and Daughter, An Alderman (1704), A Magistrate (1718), Portrait of Du Vaucel (1724), four other portraits, Louvre, Paris; Portrait of himself, do. and Family, Sculptors Nicolas Coustou and Jean Thierry, three others, Versailles Museum; Portraits in Museums at Arras (2), Avignon, Besançon (2), Chartres, Dijon, Grenoble, Lille (Jean Forest), Metz, Nancy, Nantes (2), Nîmes, Niort, Orléans (himself), Rouen (2), Strassburg, Toulon, Toulouse, Madrid (5); Hercules slaying the Hydra, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Portrait of Jean Forest, Young Nobleman (?), Berlin Museum; Jean Baptiste Tavernier, Count Dehu, Brunswick Museum; Madame Adélaide de France as Flora, Carlsruhe Gallery; Count Sinzendorff, Darmstadt Museum; Duke de la Rochefoucauld, Portrait of a Man with a Wig, Dresden Museum; Portraits of the Painters J. Antoine Arlaud and Hyacinthe Rigaud, Musée Rath, Geneva; Lady's Portrait, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Male Portrait, Schwerin Gallery; Meeting of Provost and Aldermen of Paris Merchants, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portraits of Jean Baptiste Rousseau, and of himself, Uffizi, Florence; Female Portraits (2), Historical Society, New York.—Bellier, i. 911; Ch. Blanc, École française; Houssaye, Gal. du xviii. Siècle, i. 214; Jal, 737; Larousse; Dezallier, Peintres; Van den Branden, 976; Cat. Louvre.

LARIVIÈRE, CHARLES PHILIPPE DE, born in Paris, Sept, 30, 1798, died in 1876. History and portrait painter, pupil of Guérin, Girodet, and Gros; won 2d prize in 1819, and grand prix de Rome in 1824. His works, though meritorious, did not fulfil the promise of his youth. He painted many battle and ceremonial pictures theatrical in style, also portraits, and designed the cartoons for the Cathedral of Dreux. Medals: 1st class, 1831, 1855; L. of Honour, 1836. Works: Prisoner in the Capitol visited by his Family (1827); The Plague 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 VIII. at Marseilles in 1533, Duc d'Orléans arriving at the Hôtel de Ville (1836), Battle of the Downs (1837), Bayard wounded at Capture of Brescia (1838), Battle of Cocherel (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 Belgium, Return of the Prince-President to