Francoise duparc biography
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Francoise duparc biography
Françoise Duparc
Canadian artist
Françoise Duparc | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 October 1726 Murcia |
| Died | 2 October 1778 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Known for | painter |
| Movement | Baroque |
Françoise Duparc (15 October 1726 – 2 October 1778) was a Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France.
Life
Françoise Duparc was born in Murcia, where her father Antoine Duparc, a French sculptor from Marseille, had settled and married a local Spanish woman.[1] The family returned to Marseille in 1730, and Françoise was introduced to painting by her father and served her apprenticeship in the studio of Jean-Baptiste van Loo in Aix-en-Provence from 1742 to 1745.
It is quite difficult to follow Duparc's course as she worked in different European cities: Paris and London, where she participated in two exhibitions in 1763 and 1766, and Wrocław where she spent time with one of her sisters Claire.
She returned to Marseille in 1771 where she joined the Academy of P