Jean-Baptiste Debret, took part of French artistic mission which left for Brazil in 1816.
He stayed there longer than the rest of the group, returning to France only in 1831.
During those years spent in Rio de Janeiro and in neighbouring provinces, he was in the vanguard of local artistic life, still in its infancy.
He founded and encouraged the Academia Imperial das Belas Artes, of which he became professor of history painting.
He painted many historical works such, as the Acclamation of Peter I (1822; Rio de Janeiro, Mus. N. B.A.). He and two other members of the French mission, the architect Auguste-Henri Grandjean de Montigny and the sculptor Auguste-Marie Taunay (1768-1824), were responsible for preparing the decorations in Rio de Janeiro for the celebrations in 1818 acclaiming John VI as King.
He stayed there longer than the rest of the group, returning to France only in 1831.
During those years spent in Rio de Janeiro and in neighbouring provinces, he was in the vanguard of local artistic life, still in its infancy.
He founded and encouraged the Academia Imperial das Belas Artes, of which he became professor of history painting.
He painted many historical works such, as the Acclamation of Peter I (1822; Rio de Janeiro, Mus. N. B.A.). He and two other members of the French mission, the architect Auguste-Henri Grandjean de Montigny and the sculptor Auguste-Marie Taunay (1768-1824), were responsible for preparing the decorations in Rio de Janeiro for the celebrations in 1818 acclaiming John VI as King.
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