Philippe de Champaigne, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1602)
Philippe de Champaigne (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃paɲ]; 26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Brabançon-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school. He was a founding member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art institution in France in the eighteenth century.
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