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 the city of Liége or the surrounding diocese. It 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.
- Joseph Dreppe (1737-1810), engraver.
- André Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), composer.
- Henri Hamal (1744 - 1820), composer.
19th century
- Gilles-François Closson (1796-1842), painter.
- Louis-Eugène Simonis (1810-1882), sculptor.
- Jean-Mathieu Nisen (1819-1885), painter.
- Victor Fassin (1826-1906), painter.
- Adolphe Fassin (1828-1900), sculptor.
- Jules Halkin (1830-1888), sculptor.
- Léon Philippet (1843-1906), painter.
- Alphonse de Tombay (1843-1918), sculptor.
- Léon Mignon (1847-1898), sculptor.
- Adrien de Witte (1850-1935), painter and engraver.
- Joseph Pollard (1853-1922), sculptor.
20th century
- François Maréchal (1861-1945), engraver.
- Richard Heintz (1871-1929), painter.
- Dieudonné Jacobs (1887-1967), painter.
- Jean-Pierre Ransonnet (born 1944), painter.
- Pierre Petry (1945-2017), sculptor.
- Claude Rahir (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)
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