Jean-Antoine Constantin
French painter (1756-1844)
Jean-Antoine Constantin (January 1756 – 9 January 1844), also known as Constantin d’Aix, was a French painter.
Biography
Born near Loubières, in Marseille, Jean-Antoine Constantin studied at the Academy of Painting in Marseille under the tutelage of Jean-Joseph Kapeller, David de Marseille, and Jean-Baptiste Giry. Although born and raised in Marseille, he spent his whole professional life as a painter in Aix-en-Provence.
Rome, then Aix-en-Provence
In the aftermath of his graduation, Constantin started work in the pottery industry in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie. He then lived in Rome for six years under the patronage of Perron, an arts enthusiast from Aix. Later, he moved back to Aix to work as a painter there. He mostly did landscape painting, with Digne-les-Bains, Fontaine de Vaucluse, or Marseille as inspirations.
Drawing school in Aix
In 1786, he succeeded Claude Arnulphy and became the third principal of the drawing school in Aix, continuing in the post until the French Revolution. In 1807, he moved to Digne to work as a drawing teacher for six years. He returned to Aix in 1813, with the financial support of François Marius Granet, who gave him an allowance of 150 francs.
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