Name Guillaume Descamps | Died 1858, Paris, France | |
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Guillaume-Désiré-Joseph Descamps, a painter and engraver, was born at Lille in 1779. He was a pupil of François-André Vincent, but, obtaining the "prix de Rome," he improved himself by travelling in Italy, and became court-painter of Murat in Naples. He died in Paris in 1858. The following paintings were executed by him:

As an engraver he also produced six plates from the 'Fable of Psyche.'
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