Charles François Lacroix de Marseille

Charles Francois Grenier de Lacroix, called Charles Francois Lacroix de Marseille, (circa 1700 in Marseille 1779 or 1782, Berlin) was a French painter.[1]

Charles François Lacroix de Marseille
Bornc. 1700  (age 322)
Marseille 
DiedBerlin 
OccupationPainter 

Life

Charles François Lacroix of Marseille was a landscape and marine painter, in the style of Claude Joseph Vernet, Jean-Joseph Kapeller (1702-1790) and Henry of Arles. He was a pupil and imitator of Joseph Vernet, and stayed in Rome in 1754.[2] From 1776, he exhibited with great success and spent a good part of his life between Italy and Provence. In 1780, he published an ad to welcome students in his studio in Paris. Jean-Jacques Le Veau and Noël Le Mire engraved some of his paintings.

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