Jean-Bernard Duvivier

Portrait of the Villers Family, 1790, now in the Groeningemuseum

Jean-Bernard Duvivier (Bruges, 1762 – Paris, 1837) was a painter and drawer of portraits and historical and religious subjects, a book illustrator and a professor at the Normal School in Paris. After having been instructed by Hubert and Paul de Cock and Suvée, he studied in Italy for six years. His style is characterised by balanced composition, lifelike drawing and bright colours.

Portrait of Madame Tallien, ca. 1806, now in the Brooklyn Museum

Paintings

Drawings

References

This article incorporates text from the article "DUVIVIER, Jean Bernard" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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