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Aignan-Thomas Desfriches

Aignan-Thomas Desfriches (1715 - 1800) was active/lived in France.  Aignan Thomas Desfriches is known for Countryside landscape painting, drawings on snuff boxes, teaching, art collecting.

Aignan-Thomas Desfriches studied in his native Orléans before moving in 1733 to Paris, where he completed his artistic training in the studios of first Nicolas Bertin and later Charles-Joseph Natoire. He became the director of the drawing academy established under the patronage of the duc de Rohan-Chabot, but returned to Orléans at the end of the 1730s to take over his father’s spice importing business.

He worked in Orléans for the remainder of his career, and founded the Ecole de Peinture, de Sculpture et d’Architecture d’Orléans in 1786. Active primarily as a landscape painter and draughtsman, Desfriches was strongly influenced by the Dutch masters of the 17th century. He first visited the Netherlands in 1753, and began collecting Dutch paintings and drawings soon afterwards, buying many works on a second trip in 1766.

Indeed, he was particularly active as a collector, and by 1778 the inventory of his collection listed a total of 114 painti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1958 characters.]  Artist bio

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