Philippe Mercier (painter)

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Philippe Mercier , also Philip Mercier, (born 1689 in Berlin ; died July 18, 1760 in London ) was a Franco-German painter, etcher and librarian who worked in London.

Life

Philippe Mercier was the son of Huguenot emigrants Pierre Mercier and Marie Biendovienne. He learned painting at the Academie der Mahl-, Bild- und Baukunst and from Antoine Pesne in Berlin. He studied in Italy and France. Mercier worked in Hanover for the Prince of Wales, Friedrich Ludwig von Hanover , and thus came to England around 1716. He married Margaret Plante in 1719, with whom he had two sons, and after her death in 1735 Dorothy Clapham, with whom he had a daughter.

Mercier was court painter and court librarian in Leicester Fields with the Prince and Princess of Wales . His portraits were re-engraved by Pierre Simon and John Faber , among others . By 1740, his painting style fell out of fashion and he was fired. He stayed in Yorkshire , in 1752 he was engaged in Portugal for a year and then returned to London. His daughter Charlotte Mercier also became a painter.

literature

  • Mercier, Philippe , in: Bénézit , 1976, volume 7, p. 340 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Mercier, Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mercier, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German painter, etcher and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1760
Place of death London