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See also:ROUSSEAU, JACQUES (1633-1693) , See also:French painter, a member of a Huguenot See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Paris in 163o. He was remarkable as a painter of decorative landscapes and classic ruins, somewhat in the See also:style of Canaletto, but without his delicacy of See also:touch; he appears also to have been influenced by See also:Nicolas Poussin. While See also:young Rousseau went to See also:Rome, where he spent some years in See also:painting the See also:ancient ruins, together with the surrounding landscapes. He thus formed his style, which was artificial and conventionally decorative. His colouring for the most See also:part is unpleasing, partly owing to his violent treatment of skies with crude blues and See also:orange, and his See also:chiaroscuro usually is much exaggerated. On his return to Paris he soon became distinguished as a painter, and was employed by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. to decorate the walls of his palaces at St Germain and Marly. He was soon admitted a member of the French See also:Academy of the See also:Fine Arts, but on the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes he was obliged to take See also:refuge in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and his name was struck off the Academy See also:roll. From Holland he was invited to See also:England by the See also:duke of Montague, who employed him, together with other French painters, to paint the walls of his See also:palace, Montague See also:House (on the site of which is now the See also:British Museum). Rousseau was also employed to paint architectural subjects and landscapes in the palace of See also:Hampton See also:Court, where many of his decorative panels still exist. He spent the latter part of his See also:life in See also:London, where he died in 1693.
Besides being a painter in oil and See also:fresco Rousseau was an etcher of some ability; many etchings by his See also:hand from the See also:works of the See also:Caracci and from his own designs still exist; they are vigorous, though coarse in See also:execution.
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