Painter
Jean-Louis Demarne
1752 - 1829
Jean-Louis de Marne, also known as Demarne or Demarnette, was a French painter and engraver who was born in Brussels in 1752 and died on 24 March 1829 in Les Batignolles, near Paris.
Specialising in genre painting, lively landscapes and pastoral scenes, de Marne was renowned for his style, which belonged to the French school. He worked for the Dihl et Guerhard porcelain factory, also known as the ‘Manufacture du Duc d’Angoulême’, among the artists who made it famous.
De Marne enjoyed a prolific career and produced a large number of works during his lifetime.
Jean-Louis de Marne’s reputation lives on today, as evidenced by the presence of his works in auctions and museum collections in various cities and countries: : Amiens, Besançon, Cherbourg, Dijon, Dunkerque, Sèvres, Montpellier, Quimper and in Russian museums in St Petersburg and Moscow. Several of the artist’s paintings are also on display at the Louvre and Wallace Collection in London.