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See also:LARGILLIERE, See also:NICOLAS (1656-1746) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the loth of See also:October 1656. His See also:father, a See also:merchant, took him to See also:Antwerp at the See also:age of three, and while a lad he spent nearly two years in See also:London. The See also:attempt to turn his See also:attention to business having failed, he entered, some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time after his return to Antwerp, the studio of Goubeau, quitting this at the age of eighteen to seek his See also:fortune in See also:England, where he was befriended by See also:Lely, who employed him for four years at See also:Windsor. His skill attracted the See also:notice of See also:Charles II., who wished to retain him in his service, but the fury aroused against See also:Roman Catholics by the See also:Rye See also:House See also:Plot alarmed Largilliere, and he went to Paris, where he was well received by Le Brun and See also:Van der See also:Meulen. In spite of his Flemish training, his reputation, especially as a portrait-painter, was soon established; his brilliant See also:colour and lively See also:touch attracted all the celebrities of the See also:day—actresses, public men and popular preachers flocking to his studio. See also:Huet, See also:bishop of See also:Avranches, See also:Cardinal de See also:Noailles, the See also:Duclos and
See also:President See also:Lambert, with his beautiful wife and daughter, are amongst his most noted subjects. It is said that See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II. recalled Largilliere to England on his See also:accession to the See also:throne in 1685, that he declined the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of keeper of the royal collections, but that, during a See also:short stay in London, he painted portraits of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, the See also:queen and the See also:prince of See also:Wales. This last is impossible, as the See also:birth of the prince did not take See also:place till 1688; the three portraits, therefore, painted by Largilliere of the prince in his youth must all have been executed in Paris, to which See also:city he returned some time before See also:March 1686, when he was received by the See also:Academy as a member, and presented as his diploma picture the See also:fine portrait of Le Brun, now in the Louvre. He was received as an See also:historical painter; but, although he occasionally produced See also:works of that class (" Crucifixion," engraved by Roettiers), and also treated subjects of still See also:life, it was in historical portraits that he excelled. See also:Horace See also:Walpole states that he See also:left in London those of See also:Pierre van der Meulen and of Sybrecht. Several of his works are at See also:Versailles. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Etienne du Mont at Paris contains the finest example of Largilliere's See also:work when dealing with large See also:groups of figures; it is an ex voto offered by the city to St See also:Genevieve, painted in 1694, and containing portraits of all the leading See also:officers of the See also:municipality. Largilliere passed through every See also:post of See also:honour in the Academy, until in 1743 he was made See also:chancellor. He died on the loth of March 1746. See also:Jean See also:Baptiste Oudry was the most distinguished of his pupils. Largilliere's work found skilful interpreters in Van Schuppen, See also:Edelinck, Desplaces, Drevet, Pitou and other engravers.
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