François-Xavier Fabre [SEP] occupation
François-Xavier Fabre
François-Xavier Fabre (1 April 1766 – 16 March 1837) was a French painter of historical subjects.
Born in Montpellier, Fabre was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and made his name by winning the Prix de Rome in 1787.
During the French Revolution, Fabre went to live in Florence, becoming a member of the Florentine Academy, where he taught painting. The friends he made in Italy included the dramatist, Vittorio Alfieri, whose widow, Princess Louise of Stolberg
Jean-Jacques and Louis Jean François Lagrenée, Hubert Robert (with a lot of drawings), Jean-Baptiste Huet, François-André Vincent, Louis-François Cassas, François-Xavier Fabre or François Gérard.
The Italian school, of the Renaissance of the 18th century, counts some beautiful works, notably Nicolò dell'Abate, Luca Cambiaso, Domenico Piola, Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Giambattista Tiepolo, Francesco Fontebasso and Piranèse. The 19th century mainly counts, among others, some drawings from Louis-Léopold Boilly, Paul