Philippe jacques de loutherbourg biography of michael
Philippe jacques de loutherbourg biography of michael j.
Dictionary of National Biography, /Loutherbourgh, Philip James de
&#;LOUTHERBOURGH (LOUTHERBOURG), PHILIP JAMES (PHILIPPE JACQUES) DE (–), painter and Royal Academician, born at Fulda in Germany on 31 Oct.
, was descended from a Polish family.
Philippe jacques de loutherbourg biography of michael
His father, a miniature-painter of Strasburg in Alsace, was painter to the court at Darmstadt, and died in Paris in The elder Loutherbourgh intended his son to become an engineer, but his mother, whose name was Catherine Barbe Heitz, designed him for the ministry of the Lutheran church, and with that profession in view he was educated at the college of Strasbourg.
His love of painting was, however, all-powerful, and resolving to adopt the profession of an artist he received his first lessons in art from his father. He then studied for a time under J. H. Tischbein the elder, and on coming to Paris became a pupil of Carle Vanloo, and later of Francis Casanova [q.
v.] In and the following years he exhibited many pictures at the Salon in Pari