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Philippe de Champaigne(1602-1674)Born on 26th May 1602 in Brussels where he studied principally as a landscape painter under J. Fouquières. He came to Paris in 1621 and worked with the young Poussin on the decoration of the Luxembourg palace under the direction of N. Duchesne, whose daughter he married and whom he was to succeed as first painter to the Queen Mother, Marie de Médicis, in 1628. He became a naturalised Frenchman in 1629. For the Carmelite church, Faubourg Saint-Jacques, Paris, he painted six large Biblical subjects from 1628 (of which two are in the Louvre). He received commissions from the King in 1634-8, including the Vow of Louis XIII for Notre-Dame (now at Caen), and in 1635, amongst other portraits, Richelieu commissioned the Louis XIII crowned by Victory (Louvre). During the 1640s he came into contact with the Jansenists at Port-Royal whose spiritual rigour appealed to his serious nature and found strong expression in his work. He produced a number of portraits and altarpieces for Port-Royal, of which many are now in the Louvre including the remarkable Ex-Voto of 1662, painted in thanksgiving for the miraculous cure of his elder daughter, a sister at the Convent. In 1656 he painted a series of large canvases (now distributed between the Louvre, Mainz and Tours) of hermit Saints in the desert for the appartement of Anne of Austria in the Val-de-Grâce, revealing his continuing ability as a painter of landscape. He was a founding member of the Académie Royale in 1648, his morceau de réception being the Saint Philippe of 1649 in the Louvre; he became professeur and recteur, lecturing on works by Titian, Poussin, Raphael and Reni. He died in Paris on 12 August 1674.
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