Georg Desmarées

Who was Georg Desmarées?

Georg Desmarées or Des Marées, a portrait painter, was born in 1697 at Stockholm, where he was instructed in painting by Peter Martin van Meytens, whose assistant he afterwards became. In 1724 he made a stay in Amsterdam, and in the following year in Nuremberg and then in Venice, where he received further tuition from Piazzetta. In 1731 he settled in Munich, where he became court painter, and where he continued to reside till his death in 1776. A portrait of himself and one of his daughter are, with a third in the Munich Gallery, and other portraits by him are at Augsburg.

Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria

Maria Rosa Walburga von Soyer, 1750, now at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Portrait of Esther Barbara von Sandrart