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Doyen, Gabriel-François
(b Paris, 20 May 1726; d St Petersburg, 13 March 1806). French painter. In 1748 he won second place in the Prix de Rome competition and subsequently became a pupil of Carle Vanloo at the Ecole Royale des Elèves Protégés, Paris. In 1752 he arrived to complete his artistic education at the Académie de France in Rome, where he discovered the art of Raphael and of Domenichino, as well as that of such Baroque masters as Pietro da Cortona, Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena. He also stayed in Parma and visited Venice, Bologna and Turin. His experiences in Italy confirmed him in his lifelong vocation for large-scale history painting.
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