• Also known as Pierre d'Ulin.
• Was a French painter.
• Pierre Dulin was born in Paris on 17 September 1669.
• He was intended to become an architect like his father, and was required to study that subject under Philippe de La Hire.
• He was placed in a course at the Royal Academy of Painting under Bon Boullogne.
• Dulin won few prizes up to 1694, when he was aged 25.
• He had undertaken work for the Duke of Richelieu obliged him.
• He arrived in Rome at the beginning of March 1700.
• Dulin made an altarpiece for the Dominicans in Rome on the subject of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
• He was chosen in preference to all others to portray the Spanish ambassador to Rome.
• When his pension expired and he was preparing to return to France, he had a private audience with the Pope, who pressed him to stay in Rome.
• When Dulin resisted the Pope presented him with his portrait, set in a ring, ornamented with two rubies and some diamonds, and gave him several medals and relics.
• Dulin was received by the Academy on 30 April 1707 with the painting "Laomedon punished by Apollo and Neptune" as his reception piece.
• Dulin was elected Assistant Professor on 26 October 1726.
• He died in Paris 28 January 1748.
