Philipe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A. - Two Men, One Sleeping
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Click on the main picture to view details  Philipe-Jacques de
Loutherbourg, R.A. (Strasbourg 1740 - Chiswick 1812)  Philippe
Jacques de Loutherbourg was an English artist of French origin.
He was born in Strasbourg where his father, the representative
of a Swiss family, practised miniature painting. However, De
Loutherbourg spent the greater part of his life in London, where
he was naturalised. He was educated at the University of
Strasbourg.  He insisted on being a painter and placed himself
under Charles-André van Loo (1705-1765) in Paris. The result was
an immediate and precocious development of his abilities. De
Loutherbourg became a figure in the fashionable society of his
time. In 1767 he was elected a member of the Académie Royale de
Peinture et de Sculpture although he was not old enough
according to the rules of the