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    Louis Laguerre (1663 – 20 April 1721) was a French decorative painter mainly working in England. Born in Versailles in 1663 and trained at the Paris Academy...
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    Duchess suspected him of overcharging, so the commission was given to Louis Laguerre. This room is an example of three-dimensional painting, or trompe l'œil...
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    later. The Bow Room is decorated with wall and ceiling paintings by Louis Laguerre. Although depleted of a number of important pieces by death duties in...
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    February 1965. The nearly cubical saloon retains wall-paintings by Louis Laguerre of the Battle of Blenheim (at which the 1st Duke of Marlborough was...
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  • Georges Laguerre (1858–1912), French lawyer and politician John Laguerre (1688-1748), French historical painter, son of Louis Laguerre Louis Laguerre (1663-1721)...
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    of a decorative scheme painted on the ceiling at Petworth House by Louis Laguerre in about 1720. William Etty's Pandora Crowned by the Seasons of a century...
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    decorated with murals of scenes from the life of Julius Caesar by Louis Laguerre, and ascend by the cantilevered Great Stairs to an enfilade of rooms...
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    walls of one are attributed to Sir James Thornhill and perhaps also Louis Laguerre, carried out around 1700. Re-modelling was carried out by Wyatville...
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    restoration, revealing the lost early 18th-century wall paintings by Louis Laguerre. Work was also done on the Green Pavilion, in an effort to restore it...
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    investment than an original Keating counterfeit." Major restoration of the Louis Laguerre murals depicting the Battle of Blenheim in the West Staircase at Marlborough...
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    architect William Talman with internal murals by the renowned artist Louis Laguerre and grounds originally landscaped by George London. It is located in...
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    John Flaxman and John Edward Carew), and wall and ceiling paintings by Louis Laguerre. There is also a terrestrial globe by Emery Molyneux, believed to be...
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    sprawl the Saints of Verrio or Laguerre... — lines 143-146 Timon, like Chandos, is a patron of the painter Louis Laguerre and listens to elaborate music...
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    James Pettifer (1675) and ceiling paintings of mythological scenes by Louis Laguerre. Other plasterwork within the house was designed by Pettifer, Bradbury...
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    other leading foreign painters of allegoric schemes, Antonio Verrio and Louis Laguerre, had died in 1707 and 1721 respectively, Thornhill had the field to...
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    Jean Henri Georges Laguerre (24 June 1858 - 17 June 1912) was a French lawyer and politician. Born in Paris, he was called to the bar in 1879 and distinguished...
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    galleries include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Grinling Gibbons, Daniel Marot, Louis Laguerre, Antonio Verrio, Sir James Thornhill, William Kent, Robert Adam, Josiah...
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    besieged Mons, whose capture would allow them to enter France itself, and Louis XIV ordered Villars to prevent its loss. Although the two armies made contact...
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    National Portrait Gallery. Verrio influenced younger artists such as Louis Laguerre and James Thornhill, and his Hampton Court Palace frescoes (now under...
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  • (1905–1968), British advertising designer who drew Times New Roman. Louis Laguerre (1663–1721), decorative painter. Marcellus Laroon (1653–1702), artist...
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    decorative painting. He also learned a great deal from Antonio Verrio and Louis Laguerre, two prominent foreign decorative painters then working in England....
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    c. 1712. He was father-in-law to the painter of decorative schemes Louis Laguerre who married in St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Tijou had a wife named...
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    The Right Honourable The Earl Cadogan KT, PC Lord Cadogan by Louis Laguerre Born 1672 Liscarton, County Meath, Ireland Died 17 July 1726 (aged 53–54) Kensington...
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    approved by Lionel Cust, Keeper of the King's Pictures. Fry removed what Louis Laguerre had done a century before, and worked on and off for eleven years, with...
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  • interior retains early eighteenth-century paintings by artists such as Louis Laguerre and there is an organ played by Handel and restored in the 1990s to...
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    Baroque rather than English Baroque in style. The decorative painter Louis Laguerre and other painters worked on both the church and the house. Towards...
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  • Raphael Cartoons, these include Christ Restoring the Blind Man's Sight by Louis Laguerre, Four Elements by Jacopo Amigoni, Four Seasons by Rosalba Carriera....
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  • Malplaquet, after Louis Laguerre, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island The Coronation of King George I, after Louis Chéron, British Museum...
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    house of John Atkinson, a former mayor of Leeds. Following the death of Louis Laguerre in 1721 Parmentier returned to London, hoping to succeed to his practice...
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  • Whitchurch, London, for the 1st Duke of Chandos, the ceiling was painted by Louis Laguerre. He retired to Mereworth where there is a memorial tablet to him in...
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