Old 19th Century Landscape Painting Signed Nicolas Louis Albert De La Rive

Antique painting 19 century landscape architecture, framed paintings signed N Rive 51x45 cm/ 20x18 inches Nicolas Louis Albert de la Rive, 1753 – 1817 Lissabon At eighteen, he joined the École des beaux-arts de Lille, Lille Academy of Arts, where he learned portraiture, miniature and medal drawing. At the Salon lillois des artistes, he won a first prize in 1776. He worked for the painter Louis Joseph Watteau. In 1778, he left for Paris and continued his training in the studio of Francesco Casanova, a specialist in battle scenes. Back in Lille in 1785, he married Françoise Canceler, and set up as a painter of landscapes and hunting and battle scenes. With the French Revolution, Nicolas Delerive, a Catholic, who disagreed with revolutionary ideas, decided in 1790 to expatriate himself, first to Spain, then to Lisbon in ... Read more ... Portugal. After having hispanicized his name to Nicolau Delariva, he settled permanently in Lisbon in 1800. Close to the royal court of Portugal, he produced many royal portraits and, in 1814, that of the Duke of Wellington. Nicolau Delariva died in 1818 in Lisbon