Joseph-Benoît Suvée

Joseph-Benoît Suvée (born January 3, 1743 in Bruges , † February 9, 1807 ) was a Flemish painter .

Life

Suvée was a student of the Flemish painter Matthias de Visch at a young age . At the age of 19 he came to Paris, where he deepened painting with Jean-Jacques Bachelier . In 1771 he won the Prix de Rome and went to Rome for further studies at the Académie de France à Rome , where he lived from 1772 to 1778. Then he returned to Paris and opened his own artist studio where young painters learned. One of his students was Constance Mayer . He was in competition with the painter Jacques-Louis David . As the successor to François-Guillaume Ménageot , he became director of the Académie de France à Rome in 1792, which he headed until 1807. He was followed in office in 1807Pierre-Adrien Pâris . At that time he was temporarily imprisoned in the Saint-Lazare prison in Paris.