Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819)

• Was a French painter.
• Born in the city of Toulouse.
• Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he made a number of landscape studies directly from nature, sometimes painting the same set of trees or house at different times of day.
• Painting outside allowed Valenciennes to capture the fleeting changes of a landscape due to light and weather.
• He was a proponent of artists working outside and painting the same view at multiple times of day.
• Among his students were Jean-Victor Bertin, Achille Etna Michallon, Louis Étienne Watelet, Louis-François Lejeune and the first French panorama painter Pierre Prévost.
• Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes died in Paris and is buried there in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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