François Quesnel [SEP] date of death
François Quesnel
François Quesnel (c. 1543–1619) was a French painter of Scottish extraction.
Biography.
The son of the French painter Pierre Quesnel and his Scottish wife Madeleine Digby, born in Edinburgh while his father worked for Mary of Guise, Quesnel found patronage at the French court of Catherine de Medici and her son, Henri III ("illustration"). He married Charlotte Richandeau, with whom he had four children. A widower, he remarried in 1584 Marguerite Le Masson, who gave him ten more children
(born 1560)
- April 16 - Denis Calvaert, Flemish painter (born 1540)
- April/May - William Larkin, English painter (born "early 1580s")
- June 18 - Martin Fréminet, French painter and engraver (born 1567)
- November 13 – Lodovico Carracci, Italian painter (born 1555)
- "date unknown"
- François Quesnel, French painter of Scottish extraction (born 1543)
- Lorenz van Steenwinckel, Flemish-Danish architect and sculptor (born