Jean-Baptiste Forest (1636 in

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– 1712 in Paris) was a French

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compo ...

Biography

He was instructed in the first rudiments of art by his father, Pierre Forest, an artist little known. He went afterwards to Italy, and at Rome became the scholar of Pietro Francesco Mola. After studying the works of that master for some time, he applied himself to an imitation of the grand landscapes of

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian (Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, n ...

and

Giorgione Giorgione (, , ; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; 1477–78 or 1473–74 – 17 September 1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quali ...

. On his return to France he was esteemed one of the ablest landscape painters of his country, and was received into the

Academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...

in Paris in 1674. From an unfortunate process he made use of in the preparation of his colors, some of his pictures have since become dark. He was related to

Luigi De La Forest Luigi De La Forest (Paris, 1668 or 1685 - Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, November 1, 1738) was an Italy, Italian-France, French painter, who was active in Modena. Biography Forest moved to Modena around 1712, and painted a ''Glory of Madonna and Saints ...

(1668 or 1685 -1738), Parisian painter, who was active in Modena.Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ...
By Giuseppe Campori, page 210-211.

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* 1636 births 1712 deaths French landscape painters Painters from Paris Members of the Académie des beaux-arts {{France-painter-17thC-stub