British 1830-1896 Lord Frederic Leighton Locations   Related Paintings of Lord Frederic Leighton :. | the music lesson | The Light of the Hareem (mk32) | Portrait of May Sartoris | Greek Girls Picking Up Pebbles by the Sea | Daedalus and Icarus |
Related Artists:
Hofmann Charles C.
American Painter, 1820-1882
Arthur e.grimshaw
1868-1913
Hubert Robert
(22 May 1733 - 15 April 1808), French artist, was born in Paris. His father, Nicolas Robert, was in the service of François-Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville a leading diplomat from Lorraine. Young Robert finished his studies with the Jesuits at the College de Navarre in 1751 and entered the atelier of the sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz who taught him design and perspective but encouraged him to turn to painting. In 1754 he left for Rome in the train of Étienne-François de Choiseul, son of his father's employer, who had been named French ambassador and would become a Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Louis XV in 1758.