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The basics
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Swedish painter
A.K.A.
Georges Desmarees, Georg Desmarees, G. Desmarcsa, George Démarées, Georgius Desmarées, George Demarees, George De Marees, George Desmarees, Georg des Marées, Joseph Desmarées, George Des Marées, George Des, George des Marees, Joseph des Marees, George de Marees, Georges Desmarées, Georg des Marees
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Male
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Birth:
29 October 1697(Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden)
Death:
3 October 1776(Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany)
The details
Biography
Georg Desmarées or Des Marées, a portrait painter, was born in 1697 at Stockholm, where he was instructed in painting by Martin Meytens, whose assistant he afterwards became. In 1724 he made a stay in Amsterdam, and in the following year in Nuremberg and then in Venice, where he received further tuition from Piazzetta. In 1731 he settled in Munich, where he became court painter, and where he continued to reside till his death in 1776. A portrait of himself and one of his daughter are, with a third in the Munich Gallery, and other portraits by him are at Augsburg.