Jacgues – Laurent Agasse / artist from Switzerland.
Jacques-Laurent Agasse (24 April 1767 – 27 January 1849), an artist from Switzerland
Jacgues – Laurent Agasse was born in Geneva in 1767.
As a child, he lived in the summer estate, where developed a love for horses, farm animals .Svoi days spent in sketching and grafiki.V 20 years old, he went to Paris to study veterinary medicine, to know the anatomy of the animal, before devoting his life to art.
After a brief return to Geneva in 1802, he moved to England. Agassee was known for his love of the English racehorses .In 1801 Academy there appears the first catalog of “Portrait of a Horse ‘, which was published until 1845 goda.Nesmotrya the fame he lived and died among the poor in 1849.
“Jacgues – Laurent Agasse was one of the most famous artists of the animals in the late 18th and early 19th century.”
(Nagler)