Jean pierre houel biography

Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël (28 June 1735 – 14 November 1813) was French artist.
Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël was a French painter, engraver and draftsman.
Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël (28 June 1735 - 14 November 1813) was a French painter, engraver and draftsman.

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The French painter and engraver Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houël (1735-1813) entered the Rouen School of Fine Arts at the age of fifteen years old. He quickly showed a special inclination for landscape painting. Houel went on to study architectural design and engraving in Paris. In 1770 the artist won a scholarship to continue his studies in Rome, where he stayed for four years. In Italy, he realized excellent drawings of the ancient monuments. He returned to France in 1773, and started painting by commission. In 1776 he travelled to Italy and visited Naples, Sicily, Malta and Lipari island.
During this journey, he made approximately a hundred and sixty-four drawings, which he etched and annotated himself. They were published in France in a large format edition of four volumes (1782-1787). Catherine II of Russia bought some of Houel's paintings. Houel became member of the Academy of Rouen and other scientific societies, and published more works on his art. Several of his paintings are housed in the Museum of Rouen.

This edition (of which only one volume is available here) incl

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Jean-Pierre Houël

French Neoclassical painter and engraver (1735–1813)

Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël (28 June 1735 – 14 November 1813)^[1] was a French painter, engraver and draftsman. During his long life, Houël witnessed the reign of Louis XV, the French Revolution, and the period of Napoleon's First Empire.

Biography

He was born at Rouen into a family of prosperous artisans, who sent him to the city's drawing academy when he was fifteen.^[1]

Here he was exposed to the art of early Dutch and Flemish painters, which was to have a defining impact on his chosen specialty of landscape painting.^{[citation needed]} In 1758 Houël published a book of landscape engravings, and in 1768 he painted six views of the Duc de Choiseul's country estate, the Château de Chanteloup.^[1] The following year his influential patrons secured a place for him at the French Academy in Rome. Here, captivated with Italian customs, landscapes, and ancient sites, he traveled throughout southern Italy, making gouache drawings, which he presented at the Pa