Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 65
ory and portraitpainter, son of asculptor ; pupil ofPerrier, Vouet, andPoussin. Protectedby the ChancellorSeguier. At theage of fifteen heattracted attention by several picturespainted for Cardinal Richelieu, and in 1642was taken to Rome by Nicholas Poussin,with whom he lived six years, and… … x.: 44 LE BRUN ennobled him, gave him the general care ofall works of art in royal buildings, and madehim director of the Gobelins, and succes-sively rector, chancellor, and director of theAcademy of Painting. In 1666 Le Bruninduced the king to found the French Acad-emy at Rome, Avhere, though…
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