Gallery of the Masters 
Joseph-Benoit Suvée
1743-1807 Belgium/Neoclassicism
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Brief Biography-Joseph Marie Vien taught Joseph-Benoit Suvée from Bruges alongside Jacques-Louis David. Suvée won the Prix de Rome in opposition to David in 1771; they were competitors in Neoclassicism throughout their lives. After a spell in Rome, where he taught Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, he returned to Paris and became a painter to the King. That engagement was to end when David was the dictator of the arts. In 1801, Napoleon appointed Suvée to Rome, where he became the Academy Director; he spent his last years in Rome. |
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birth of the virgin
cornelia mother of
the gracchi
erminia and the
shepherds
invention of the art
of drawing
milo of croton
the combat of mars
and minerva
the nativity
the predication of
saint paul
