Georg Desmarées (1697– 1776)

• Was a Swedish-born German portrait painter.
• Desmarées was born in 1697 at Stockholm, Sweden.
• He was instructed in painting by a maternal relative, Martin Meytens.
• In 1724 he stay in Amsterdam, and in 1725 in Nuremberg.  
• In Nuremberg he visited the drawing academy of Johann Daniel Preissler.
• In Venice he received further training from Italian Rococo painter Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
• In 1731, he married Barbara Marie Schuhbauer.
• They settled in Munich where he became a court painter.
• He continued to reside in Munich until his own death in 1776.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Georg Desmarées, Self portrait with his daughter, ca. 1750.
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