Claude Lorrain
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Seascapes Art Work
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Claude Lorrain |
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London, England |
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1600 |
| Death: |
1682 |
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Quick Facts
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Seascapes |
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Painting
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Biography
Lorrain was born in 1604 or 1605 into poverty in the town of Champagne, Vosges in Lorraine. His actual name was Claude Gellée, but he is better known by the province in which he was born. Orphaned by age of twelve, he went to live at his elder brother, Jean Gellée, a woodcarver. He then went Naples, where he apprenticed for two years, from 1619 to 1621, under Goffredo (Gottfried) Wals. He returned to Rome in April 1625 and became Augustin Tassi's apprentice.
In 1627 Lorrain returned to Rome. Here, two landscapes made for Cardinal Bentivoglio earned him the patronage of Pope Urban VIII. From about 1637 he achieved fame as a painter of landscapes and seascapes. |
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