- Claude Charles
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Claude Charles, a French historical and decorative painter, was born at Nancy in 1661. He studied under Gérard, and became herald at arms and painter to Leopold, Duke of Lorraine. He painted numerous pictures for the churches of Nancy, and died in that city in 1747.
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This article incorporates text from the article "CHARLES, Claude" 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.
Categories:- 1661 births
- 1747 deaths
- People from Nancy
- French painters
- French painter, 17th century birth stubs
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