He came from a middle-class family with trading interests in Italy.

Portuguese painter, architect and restorer, active in Italy. He stayed briefly at RiversвЂ™s home, Stratfield Saye, Hants, before returning to Europe for another decade, then emigrated permanently to England in. George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (?1722вЂ“1803), whom he had met in either Geneva or Paris c. At this time he also undertook a serious study of dissection and veterinary science.ДЄgasse first visited England in his early 20s, at the invitation of the Hon. His early artistic output consisted chiefly of unpretentious silhouette вЂcut-outsвЂ™ in the style of Jean-Daniel Huber. Agasse trained first at the Ecole du Colibri in Geneva and subsequently in Paris under Jacques-Louis David (beginning in 1787) and possibly under Horace Vernet. Born into a wealthy and politically influential Huguenot family, Agasse spent his early childhood at the country estate of CrГ©vin, where he may have developed the interest in animals and natural history that was to guide his later career as an artist in England. ( b Geneva, Mad London, Dec 27, 1849).Д®nglish painter of Swiss birth. Public Art, Land Art, and Environmental Art Installation Art, Mixed-Media, and Assemblage Collecting, Patronage, and Display of Art

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