Lambert Darchis
Lambert Darchis (baptised 31 July 1625; died 25 February 1699) was an arts patron from Liège. He is also thought to have been an ecclesiastic, but according to some sources his ordination has never been confirmed.
Life[]
Son of Jacques Darchis and Marguerite Froidmont, he was baptised in the church of Notre-Dame aux Fonts in Liège. From 1646 to his death he worked in Rome for the Roman Curia. His will was proven on 22 October 1696 and funded the creation of the 'fondation Lambert-Darchis', which granted travel bursaries to young artists, art restorers, art historians, engravers, composers and would-be ecclesiologists who had been born or were living in Liège or the surrounding diocese. The foundation still exists.[1]
Recipients of the Fondation[]
18th century[]
- Jean-Noël Hamal (1709–1778), composer
- Laurent-Benoît Dewez (1731–1812), architect
- Léonard Defrance (1735–1805), painter
- (1737–1810), engraver
- André Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), composer
- (1744–1820), composer
19th century[]
- Gilles-François Closson (1796–1842), painter
- (1810–1882), sculptor
- (1819–1885), painter
- (1826–1906), painter
- (1828–1900), sculptor
- (1830–1888), sculptor
- (1843–1906), painter
- (1843–1918), sculptor
- Léon Mignon (1847–1898), sculptor
- (1850–1935), painter and engraver
- (1853–1922), sculptor
20th century[]
- (1861–1945), engraver
- (1871–1929), painter
- (1887–1967), painter
- (born 1944), painter
- Pierre Petry (1945–2017), sculptor
- (1937–2007), painter, sculptor, mosaicist
References[]
Bibliography (in French)[]
- A. Micha, « La fondation Darchis », Bulletin de l'institut archéologique liégeois, Liège, t. XL, 1910, p. 99-115 (ISSN 0776-1260)
- Jean Puraye, La Fondation Lambert-Darchis à Rome, Liège, Fondation Lambert Darchis, 1993, 424 p.
- Jean Puraye, « Pierre-Joseph Antoine, boursier Darchis. », Bulletin de la société royale Le Vieux-Liège, t. XII, no 262, 1993, p. 441-451 (ISSN 0776-1309)
Categories:
- Clergy from Liège
- 1625 births
- 1699 deaths
- 17th-century philanthropists
- Belgian patrons of the arts
- Belgian patrons of music