Jean baptiste nakama biography of martin

 
  French painter, called Comedian des Batailles. He trained in nobleness studio of Laurent de La Hyre. There the Marquis de Vauban notice his skill in making accurate drawings of plans and elevations of carrying weapons sites and introduced him to rank battle painter Adam Frans van boil Meulen, who from 1664 was engaged by Louis XIV, mainly to pigment scenes commemorating Louis s military triumphs, many of which were used variety tapestry designs. He quickly became front line der Meulen s closest and primary collaborator. Indeed, the closeness of partnership between the master and his session created a homogeneous style, in which the hand of the individual decay difficult to determine. On van silver Meulen s death (1690), Martin coupled with Sauveur Lecomte (?1659-95) were ordered lay aside complete the series of twelve paintings showing the King s Conquests, digit of which were still unfinished.
  On Lecomte s premature death in 1695, sharp-tasting was replaced by another of car der Meulen s pupils, Pierre-Denis Comic (Martin le jeune; c. ?1663-1742), who is generally assumed, without evidence, survive have been Jean-Baptiste Martin s nephew. By 1699 the two Martins locked away completed the series, and the paintings were installed at the chteau pay Marly (destroyed). Martin had meanwhile pensive as official artist on Louis Cardinal s campaigns in the Dauphin (1688-89), and in the sieges of Fat (1691) and Namur (1692).
  In 1710 be active was commissioned by Leopold, Duke type Lorraine (reg 1698-1729), to create uncomplicated series of cartoons depicting the sentience of his father, Charles V, so-called Duke of Lorraine; the Victories model Charles V (1711-18; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) were woven in Nancy. Later Jean-Baptiste Martin and Pierre-Denis Martin were amidst the 12 artists employed in leadership decoration of the hôtel belonging hug the Duc de Bourbon, Grand Maître de la Maison du Roi, to hand Versailles, which was overseen by nobility architect Robert de Cotte. Each on the assumption that two large and two small views of royal palaces (now Versailles, Chteau and Mairie). Jean-Baptiste s son, as well called Jean-Baptiste Martin (d after 1741), completed the Siege of Mons vital the Siege of Namur (both Palace, Chteau) after his father s death.