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actually in the thick of the battle. In
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123:. According to contemporary biographers he served for three years in the Spanish army. During this time he drew marches and battles, fight scenes, landscapes and military costumes. He then abandoned the weapons and studied for some time in Milan with an unidentified sculptor. He moved to Bologna in 1639 where he first entered the studio of Jérôme Colomès, a painter from Lorraine. According to early Italian biographer
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who was a painter and engraver in her own right. His wife was already in her forties when she got married. The marriage was not successful and the couple soon separated for unknown reasons. When
Courtois left Rome for Siena she did not follow him. Courtois was called to enter the service of Prince
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European history. His paintings of battles were so popular that no large or small collection of his time was without a work by his hand. Courtois succeeded in creating for viewers the impression that they were
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Courtois was also a gifted draftsman who showed in his drawings all the freedom and spontaneity of the
Baroque. His sketch-books (London British Museum, and Florence, Gallerie Uffizi) demonstrate his acute ability to capture in quick sketches the movements and the dynamics of troops, while using
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scenes, animal paintings and landscapes, which included anecdotal scenes placed in the environs of Rome. The style of genre painting practiced by Pieter van Laer was followed by other
Northern and Italian painters. These followers became known as the
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whom he had met in
Florence, and whose night landscapes, scenes of necromancy, soldiers, battles and genre scenes he admired. The fiery battle scenes of Salvator Rosa possibly left a mark in his more painterly touch and darker colours.
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100:. He was the son of the obscure painter Jean-Pierre Courtois. Very little is known about Guillaume’s youth but it is assumed he received his initial training from his father. He had two younger brothers who also became painters
401:. Jacques Courtois' battle scenes share with the Bamboccianti an interest in the anecdotal and an attention to detail. This influence became less in his more mature period through the influence of contemporary painter
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