Restout
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The Restout family was a French dynasty of painters from Normandy, including the painters:
- Marguerin Restout and his sons:
- Marc RestoutMarc RestoutMarc Restout was a French painter. The son of Marguerin Restout, he belonged to the famous Restout dynasty of painters. He was a prolific painter and won a major reputation in Flanders, Holland and Rome, having accompanied Poussin to Rome in 1642...
, (1616-1684) and his sons:- Jacques RestoutJacques Restoutthumb|250px|right|Jacques Restout was a French painter of the Restout dynasty and a Premonstratensian canon regular. Born in Caen, he was a student of Le Tellier and became prior of the abbaye de Moncets near Reims.-Works:* La Réforme de la Peinture, Caen, J...
, (1650-1701) - Eustache RestoutEustache RestoutEustache Restout was a French architect, engraver, painter and Premonstratensian canon regular, belonging to the artistic Restout dynasty. At his death he was sub-prior of abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye - he had produced the plans on which that monastery was rebuilt and painted several paintings...
, (1655-1743), also an architect and engraver - Thomas RestoutThomas RestoutThomas Restout was a French painter. The son of Marc Restout, he belonged to the Restout dynasty of painters and was mainly a portraitist.-References:...
, (1671-1754)
- Jacques Restout
- Jean I RestoutJean I RestoutJean Restout was a French painter and part of the Restout dynasty of painters, studying under his father Marguerin Restout...
, (1666-1702), and his sons:- Jean II RestoutJean II RestoutJean II Restout was a French painter, whose late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of Saint Scholastica an "isolated achievement" that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries.-Biography:...
, (1692-1768) - Jean-Bernard RestoutJean-Bernard RestoutJean-Bernard Restout was a French painter.-Life:A son of Jean II Restout and like him a member of the Académie de Rouen, he won the Prix de Rome in 1758 and was aggregated to the Académie royale on his return from Italy in 1765, then received into it in 1769. However, he refused to conform to its...
, (1732-1797)
- Jean II Restout
- Marc Restout