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Louis-Joseph Watteau de Lille

Louis-Joseph Watteau de Lille (1731 - 1798) was active/lived in France.  Louis Joseph Watteau de Lille is known for Genre, religious genre, historical painting.

Louis-Joseph Watteau, called Watteau de Lille (Valenciennes 1731 - Lille 1798)

His father Noël Joseph Watteau (1689-1756) was brother to Jean-Antoine Watteau, the painter of fêtes galantes, and he was himself father to the painter François Watteau (1758-1823), also called Watteau de Lille. 

He trained in Paris with Jacques Dumont, and at the Académie Royale, where in 1751 he was awarded first prize for painting.  In 1755 he settled in Lille; there he became assistant teacher at the school of drawing, but was dismissed, because of what was considered a scandalous innovation, the introduction of study of the nude, as in Paris.  He then returned to Valenciennes for c. 15 years; around 1770 he became assistant teacher to Louis-Jean Guéret, director of the school of drawing in Lille, whom he succeeded in the post in 1778.  On Watteau's initiative, an annual Salon, at which he himself exhibited regularly, was established in Lille in 1773.  In 1795 he wsphinxfineart.com
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