Ferdinand Elle [SEP] place of death
Ferdinand Elle
Ferdinand Elle (1570 in Mechelen – 1637 in Paris), was a French portrait painter.
Biography.
According to the RKD he was the teacher of Nicolas Poussin and his son, the painter Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder. From 1601 he was court painter to Louis XIII. Very few of his works survive.
References.
- Ferdinand Elle on Artnet
His early sketches gained him a place in the studios of established painters. He worked for three months in the studio of the Flemish painter Ferdinand Elle, who painted almost exclusively portraits, a genre that was of little interest to Poussin. He moved next to the studio of Georges Lallemand, but Lallemand's inattention to precise drawing and the articulation of his figures apparently displeased Poussin. Moreover, Poussin did not fit well into the studio system, in which several painters worked on the same painting. Thereafter he preferred to work very