Nicolas-Louis-Albert Delerive (1755-1818)

• Was a French painter of Spanish ancestry.
• Delerive was born in Lille.
• Nicolas Delerive belongs to a generation of French artists established in Portugal in the late 18th century.
• He developed a new trend which contributes to the rise of genre Painting in the 19th century, through Flemish and Dutch painting models, elements that are at the base of a new aesthetic, Proto-romantic, which develops in counter-current in the face of dominant classicism.
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