David des Granges

The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are London, The Hague and Scotland. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by David des Granges is recorded in the collections of Tate, Cincinnati Art Museum and Yale Center for British Art.

The son of Samson de Granges and his wife Marie Bouvier, he was baptised twice, first on 24 March 1611, at the French church on Threadneedle Street, with Esther des Granges the wife of Elias Le Tellier as witness, and later at St Ann Blackfriars. He married in 1636 and moved from the parish of St Ann Blackfriars to Long Acre, where he was living again at the end of his life, c.1672. • Illustration — The Saltonstall Family attributed to David des Granges, Tate Des Granges was initially influenced as a miniature painter by John Hoskins and Peter Oliver. Contemporaries attest that he worked also as an engraver, and in oils; he is thought to have been involved in the copying of miniatures, a form of production that became important with the outbreak of the English Civil War and the demand for tokens of loyalty. Des Granges was with Charles II in Scotland in the early 1650s, copying a likeness of Charles by Adriaen Hanneman. After the English Restoration of 1660, Des Granges was influenced by the court painter Jacob Huysmans, and possibly also Samuel Cooper. He was considered a leading artist of his time, but his authentic works are not now easy to identify.

The authorities additionally record the headings David Des Grages, David Granger, David Des Granges, David De Grange and David Desgranges. His recorded language was English.