1680 – 1730

French painter, the son of René-Antoine Houasse. On his deathbed in 1700, Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg ruler, named Bourbon Philip of Anjou - the grandson of France's Louis XIV - as his successor, thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession. It was not until 1713 that Philip secured his crown (as Philip V), at the cost of renouncing any future claim to the French throne.Show more

2 artworks in collection