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Demarne (Demarnette) Jean-Louis
(1752—1829)

French painter. He was born on in Brussels. He went to Paris at the age of 12 after the death of his father, who had been in Brussels as an officer in the service of the Emperor of Austria. Having spent eight years studying history painting under Gabriel Briard [1729–1777], he entered the Prix de Rome competition in 1772 and 1774 but failed to win. Thereafter he concentrated on landscape and genre painting, in which he was greatly influenced by such 17th-century Dutch masters, all artists enjoying a tremendous vogue and high prices in Paris at that time. Demarne was made an associate (agréé) of the Académie Royale in 1783 but did not become a full member. He seems to have cared little for official honors and later, in 1815, was unwilling to seek membership of the Institut de France. He was, however, awarded the Légion d’honneur at the Salon of 1828.

Liberia, 1970, Meeting of Napoleon and Pope Pius VII