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| | PIERRE HENRI DE VALENCIENNES - Biography |
 | | Despite his famous maxim, ‘work in haste, so as to seize Nature as she is’,[1] surely a command well understood by the Impressionists, Valenciennes was a forgotten artist within less than a century of his reception at the Academy. |
 | | Valenciennes was born in Toulouse and studied first in the academy there with a minor local history painter, Jean-Baptiste Despax, under whose tutelage he would have become familiar with the iconography of conventional classical and biblical subjects, and the miniaturist Guillaume Gabriel Bouton. |
 | | Valenciennes had again returned to Rome by 1785 and, two years later, on 28 July 1787, was received at the Royal Academy in Paris. |
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