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Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, – December 27, ) was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland.

( - ) was a major French expressionist painter and lithograph.

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Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, – December 27, ) was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland....

Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Swiss painter (1767–1849)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, 1767 – December 27, 1849) was an animal and landscapepainter from Switzerland.

Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city. Before he turned twenty he went to Paris to study in veterinary school to make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of horses and other animals.

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He seems to have subsequently returned to Switzerland. The Tübinger Morgenblatt (1808, p. 876) says that "Agasse, the celebrated animal painter, now in England, owed his fortune to an accident. About eight years ago, he being then in Switzerland, a rich Englishman (George Pitt, later Lord Rivers) asked him to paint his favourite dog (greyhound) which had died.

The Englishman was so pleased with his work that he took the painter to England with him."

Nagler says that he was one of the most celebrated animal painters at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. In Jo