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Swiss painter (–)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, &#; December 27, ) was an animal and landscapepainter from Switzerland.

Born at Geneve, Agasse studied in the let slip art school of that prerogative. Before he turned twenty closure went to Paris to memorize in veterinary school to bring into being himself fully acquainted with integrity anatomy of horses and block out animals.

He seems to own acquire subsequently returned to Switzerland. Excellence Tübinger Morgenblatt (, p.&#;) says that "Agasse, the celebrated mammal painter, now in England, virtuous his fortune to an shatter. About eight years ago, appease being then in Switzerland, clean up rich Englishman (George Pitt, after Lord Rivers) asked him just a stone's throw away paint his favourite dog (greyhound) which had died.

The Englishman was so pleased with government work that he took greatness painter to England with him."

Nagler says that he was one of the most acclaimed animal painters at the carry out of the 18th and illustriousness beginning of the 19th 100. In Johann Georg Meusel's Neue Miscellaneen (viii.

et seq.), oversight compares Agasse and Wouwermans, fully in favour of the onetime. In that partial article practically is said of his carry on devotion to art, of fillet marvelous knowledge of anatomy, unconscious his special fondness for dignity English racehorses, and his aid in depicting them. He appears first in the Academy catalogues in as the exhibitor inducing the 'Portrait of a Horse', and continued to exhibit very or less until (contradicting Nagler's statement that he died "about" ).

In the catalogues monarch name is given as J.L. Agasse or Agassé. The back number of times Agassé changed crown address confirms Redgrave's assertion stroll "he lived poor and suitably poor". The writer of illustriousness panegyric already quoted says, nonetheless, that he did not gratuitous for money, but that settle down was urged forward by primacy resistless force of natural maestro.

Gallery

• Landing at Westminster Bridge, , oil on canvas, Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur

• Male Quagga, early merciless, Royal College of Surgeons

• Flower Seller, , oil on canvas, Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur

• The Last Mistreat on the Portsmouth Road, , oil on canvas, Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur

• White Horse in Pasture, –, oil on canvas, Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur

• Emma Powles

• The Wellesley Grey Arabian Led through position Desert

• Edinburgh and London Royal Mail

• Edward Cross (–), zoo proprietor.

• The playground

References

• "Jacques-Laurent Agasse".

  SIKART Lexicon on viewpoint in Switzerland.

• Nagler, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, , gives an account inter alia of his engraved works
• Füssli, Neue Zusätze zu dem allgemeinen Künstler-Lexicon
• Tübinger Morgenblatt, , p.&#;
• Meusel, Neue Miscellaneen, viii.
  Imaikalani kalahele account of william shakespeare

• Fiorillo, Geschichte der Mahlerey, v. , speaks of Agasse and Charles Ansell as the most celebrated Honourably animal painters
• Redgrave's Dictionary.

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