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Joseph-Siffred Duplessis
Joseph Siffred Duplessis - Master of 18thC French Portraiture, Faméd for Realistic Depictions of Aristocracy & Iconic Portraits Like Benjamin Franklin Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1725–1802), a name perhaps less immediately recognizable than some of his contemporaries, nevertheless occupies a pivotal position in the history of 18th-century French portraiture. Born in Carpentras, France, he wasn’t born into an established artistic dynasty
but rather a family where creativity simmered beneath the surface of practical life; his father, a surgeon, possessed a keen amateur interest in painting and provided young Joseph with his earliest instruction. This grounding in observation – the precise rendering required by medical illustration – would prove invaluable to Duplessis’s later success. He continued his formal training under Joseph Gabriel Imbert, a pupil of Charles Le Br…