Louis de Silvestre

France · 1675–1760

Louis de Silvestre, also known as Louis de Silvestre the Younger, was a French portrait and history painter. He was court painter to King Augustus II of Poland, and director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden. He is sometimes called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his older brother Louis Silvestre the Elder, drawing-master to the Dauphin. == Life and work == Silvestre was born in either Paris or Sceaux, a town south of Paris, on 23 June 1675. He was the fourth son of draughtsman and engraver Israel Silvestre and Henriette Sélincart, the daughter of a Parisian merchant.

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