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The Passing Coach by Jacques Laurent Agasse #1805341

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The Passing Coach by Jacques Laurent Agasse #1805341
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The Passing Coach by Jacques Laurent Agasse 1767 -1849</em></td>
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Signed with initials "J.L.A." and further inscribed on the reverse.

Born in Switzerland, Jacques-Laurent Agasse moved to England in 1800. He studied veterinary science in Paris before devoting his life to art. However, his initial interest carried over and he mostly painted animals. Probably due to his difficult personality, the success that Agasse acquired in England had diminished by his death in 1849. He died penniless and practically forgotten. Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, 1767 - December 27, 1849) was an animal and landscape painter.

He was born at Geneva, and received his first instruction in the public art school of that city. Whilst still under twenty he went to Paris, in order that there, in the veterinary school, he might make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of the horse and other animals. He seems to have subsequently returned to Switzerland. The Tübinger Morgenblatt (1808, p. 876) says that "Agasse, the celebrated animal painter, now in England, owed his fortune to an accident. About eight years ago, he being then in Switzerland, a rich Englishman asked him to paint his favourite dog which had died. The Englishman was so pleased with his work that he took the painter to England with him." Nagler says that he was one of the most celebrated animal painters at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. In Meusel's Neue Miscellaneen (viii. 1052 et seq.), a comparison is instituted between Agasse and Wouvermans, wholly in favour of the ...
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#: 2971</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:19th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Jacques Laurent Agasse</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:10</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:The Passing Coach by Jacques Laurent Agasse</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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