Jacques Blanchard

Kingdom of France · 1600–1638

Jacques Blanchard, also known as Jacques Blanchart, was a French baroque painter who was born in Paris. He was raised and taught by his uncle, the painter Nicolas Bollery (ca. Jacques’s brother and son, Jean-Baptiste Blanchard (after 1602, 1665) and Gabriel Blanchard (1630, 1704), respectively were also painters. == Life == === Early years === Despite his polished and prolific output as a religious and decorative painter, very little is known of Blanchard’s early development. He apparently spent his adolescence apprenticed at the Paris studio of his maternal uncle Nicolas Baullery (c.

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