Guillaume Descamps

Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, 1817

Guillaume-Désiré-Joseph Descamps, a painter and engraver, was born at Lille in 1779. He was a pupil of François-André Vincent, but, obtaining the "prix de Rome," he improved himself by travelling in Italy, and became court-painter of Murat in Naples. He died in Paris in 1858. The following paintings were executed by him:

• The Women of Sparta (in the Lille Museum). 1808.
• The Martyrdom of St. Andrew (in St. Andrė, Lille).
• Murat on board the Ceres distributing Rewards (engraved hy himself).
• The Conversion of St. Augustine (in St. Eustache, Paris).
• The Apotheosis of Cardinal Tommasi (in San Martino di Monti, Rome).
• The Neapolitan Troops marching out against Capri.

As an engraver he also produced six plates from the 'Fable of Psyche.'

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  Murat on board the Cérès distributing Rewards

References

This article incorporates text from the article "DESCAMPS, Guillaume Désiré Joseph" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.