Claude Lefebvre ( French: Claude Lefèbvre ; September 12, 1632 , Fontainebleau - April 25, 1675 ) - French artist and engraver .
| Claude Lefebvre | |
|---|---|
 Self portrait. c. 1663 | |
| Birth name | Charles Le Brun |
| Date of Birth | September 12, 1632 |
| Place of Birth | Fontainebleau |
| Date of death | April 25, 1675 (42 years old) |
| A place of death | Paris |
| Citizenship | France |
| Genre | |
| Style | classicism |
Biography
The son of the artist Jean Lefebvre (1600-1675). He received his first painting lessons in his father’s workshop. He studied with Eustache Lesueur (1654) in Paris, and after his death, Charles Lebrun (1655), who advised the young artist to focus on portraits .
He soon established himself as one of the leading portrait painters, and in 1663, at the age of thirty, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture , and in 1664 became an assistant professor at the Academy. Among his students are François de Trois .
K. Lefebvre visited England, where he was impressed by the works of Anthony van Dyck , which influenced his work. In London, the painter was invited to the court of the English king Charles II .
At the peak of his career, in 1673 he exhibited ten of his works, nine of which were portraits.
Many of Lefebvre's paintings have been lost, and only a few of them are known from engravings by other artists, such as Gerard Edelink and Pierre-Louis van Sheppen.
Unlike most of his contemporaries, who created their engravings based on the work of other artists, Lefebvre engraved on the basis of their own paintings.
Canvases and engravings by K. Lefebvre are now in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery in London , the Louvre Museum, the Carnival Museum in Paris, the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum in Boston (USA), etc.