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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
