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Adrien Manglard () was a French painter, draughtsman, and engraver....
Adrien Manglard
French landscape painter and engraver ( 1695 – 1760)
Adrien Manglard (French pronunciation:[adʁijɛ̃mɑ̃ɡlaʁ]; 10 March 1695 – 1 August 1760) was a French painter, draughtsman, and engraver.
A French painter and engraver, Adrien Manglard worked in Rome for much of his life and became renowned for his maritime paintings.
He was a skilled marine painter, who was able to rapidly advance his career in Rome thanks to his compositional skills,[1] selling paintings to clients such as the Rospigliosi family, Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia, and Philip, the Duke of Parma.
The latter alone commissioned more than 140 paintings from Manglard.[1][2]
The son of a modest painter, Manglard was trained in Lyon by his godson Adriaen van der Cabel, a Dutch Golden Age landscapist.
In 1734 Manglard was admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which he entered as a full member in 1736. In his youth he traveled to Rome, where he spent most of his life. He is said to have trained under Bernardino Fergioni (1674–1738) in Italy.
Manglard also came into co