Nicolas Desportes the Younger (1718–1787)

• Was a French painter, specialising in representations of animals and hunting scenes.
• Desportes was born in Busancy.
• He trained under his uncle Alexandre-François Desportes, an animal painter to king Louis XV, thus gaining the nickname "Desportes le neveu" (Desportes the nephew).
• Nicolas was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1723.
• On his uncle's death, he sold his studio contents to the Manufacture de Sèvres.
• He died in Paris.
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