Nicolas Desportes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Buzancy, Grand Est, France
About Nicolas Desportes
- Nicolas Desportes (1718–1787) was a French painter, specialising in representations of animals and hunting scenes.
- Desportes was born in Busancy.
- He trained under his uncle Alexandre-François Desportes, an animal painter to king Louis XV, thus gaining the nickname "Desportes le neveu" (Desportes the nephew).
- Nicolas was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1723.
- On his uncle's death, he sold his studio contents to the Manufacture de Sèvres.
- He died in Paris.
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