Alexandre Ubeleski

Ubeleski's Aeneas and Anchises

Alexandre Ubeleski (sometimes Ubelesqui or Ubielesqui), French painter, was born in Paris in 1649.[note 1] He was a pupil of Charles Lebrun, and completed his studies in Rome, where he became a member of the Academy, and where he painted the dome of a chapel in Santa Maria in Transpontina.

Danse d'une nymphe et d'un satyre, Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts

On his return to France he was patronized by the Court, became a member of the French Academy in 1682, and Professor in 1695. He died in Paris, April 21, 1718.[note 2]

Notes and references

  1. Some sources give his date of birth as 1628.
  2. Some sources give his date of death as 1715.

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Rosenberg, Pierre (1990). "Un émule polonais de Le Brun: Alexandre Ubelesqui". Artibus et Historiae (in Frenchvolume=11) (22): 163–187. 


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