1616 – 1695

Painter, printmaker and writer, part of a French family of artists. Gilles Testelin (1589 or 1592-1632), painter to Louis XIII, was the father of Louis Testelin (1615-1665) and Henri Testelin, both of whom studied painting with Simon Vouet and in 1648 were among the founders of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. As a member of the circle of Charles Le Brun, Henri Testelin endorsed his connection with the Académie Royale by submitting an allegorical portrait of Louis XIV in Childhood as Patron of the Arts (Versailles, Château) as his morceau de réception.Show more

3 artworks in collection