GUILLAUME DESIRE DESCAMPS (1779-1858). FRENCH... Lot 378
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GUILLAUME DESIRE DESCAMPS (1779-1858). FRENCH SCHOOL OF THE 19TH CENTURY. Portrait of Ignace-Joseph Vanlerberghe de Busigny holding a letter. Oil on canvas signed and dated "1819" (accident, cracks). 62 x 51 cm. Gilt frame with palmettes.
Related work :
Guillaume Descamps, "Portrait of Ignace Vanlerberghe (1758-1819), banker and supplier to the armies". Portrait dated 1819, kept in the collections of the Musée Carnavalet.
Biography :
Ignace-Joseph Vanlerberghe de Busigny (1758-1819).
A grain trader, he made a great fortune as a supplier to the armies. He became a banker under the Empire but went bankrupt in 1811.
He was the father of Eglée, wife of Etienne Emile Cornudet.
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