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Adam, Gaspard-Louis-Charles  

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31 October 2011

French, 18th century, male.

Baptised 2 September 1760, in the parish of St-Germain-l'Auxerrois, Paris; died 1837, or after.

Sculptor.

Gaspard Adam, a son of Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, is chiefly known as one of the last representatives of this family. Through his aunt Anne Adam, wife of Thomas Michel, he was first cousin to Claude Michel, known as Clodion. His very existence was long unknown. The 'Nouvelles archives de l'art français' have found a petition he offered to the king, Louis-Philippe, in which he declares that he is 77 years old, ill, as is his wife, informs the king of his poverty and reminds him that his father had been a sculptor to the former kings of France, also to Stanislas, king of Poland, and that their ruin was due to the Revolution. He stresses his father's patriotism and ends by requesting a pension. Throughout this petition Gaspard Adam speaks only of his father and does not mention any work of his own, of which there is no documentary evidence. The register of the École de l'Académie Royale notes his entrance on ...

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Adam, Grégoire Joseph  

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31 October 2011

French, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1737, in Valenciennes; died 1820, in Valenciennes.

Sculptor.

Grégoire Adam is not mentioned in artists' records, but Gombert, the architect from Lille who built the Hôtel Merghelynck at Ypres, thought him fit to compete with the best artists of French Flanders in the ornamentation of this supreme expression of 18th-century art. He decorated one of the salons, installing in it medallions of ...

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Adam, Henri Georges  

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31 October 2011

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1904, in Paris; died 27 August 1967, in Perros-Guirec (Côtes-d'Armor).

Sculptor (including bronze), engraver (burin). Monuments, designs for tapestries, stage costumes and sets.

Henri Adam's father, a goldsmith and jeweller, taught him the rudiments of the trade while he was studying at the Collège Lavoisier. He also took classes in drawing, first at the École Germain-Pillon and subsequently at the Atelier de la Ville de Paris in Montparnasse, before moving to the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited various paintings between ...

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Adam, Jacob-Sigisbert  

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31 October 2011

School of Lorraine, 17th – 18th century, male.

Baptised 28 October 1670, in St-Sébastien, Nancy; died 27 May 1747, in Nancy or in Paris.

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Jacob-Sigisbert Adam founded the Adam dynasty of artists in Nancy, among whom was Claude Michel, known as Clodion. He was the son of a metal caster, Lambert Adam, and of Anne Ferry who was known as Dauphin. Some biographers, misled by an error in his death certificate, give his date of birth as ...

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Adam, Jacques  

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31 October 2011

French, 18th century, male.

Sculptor.

Jacques Adam was admitted to the Académie de St-Luc, Paris, in 1746. He was a master sculptor.

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Adam, Jacques-Félix  

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French, 18th century, male.

Died before 1787.

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A son of Nicolas-Félix Adam, Jacques-Félix Adam became a member of the Académie de St-Luc in 1759. He married the daughter of Pierre Royer, painter to the queen and former director of the Académie de St-Luc.

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Adam, Jean  

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French, 17th century, male.

Born 31 October 1630, in Nancy.

Sculptor.

School of Lorraine.

Jean Adam was the son of one Lambert Adam, who is unrecorded and was probably born around 1600. Jean Adam is thought to be identical with an artist described in 1657...

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Adam, Jean  

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French, 18th century, male.

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This Jean Adam was working in Paris in 1757 and is probably the same as the Jean-Baptiste Adam mentioned in 1766.

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Adam, Jean Edme  

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31 October 2011

French, 18th century, male.

Active in Paris.

Died 1770.

Sculptor (marble).

Admitted to the Académie de St-Luc in 1740.

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Adam, Jean-Baptiste  

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French, 18th century, male.

Active in Paris.

Died 1766.

Sculptor.

A brother of Nicolas-Félix Adam. He was admitted to the Académie de St-Luc in 1716, became its rector in 1731 and then director. He was a master sculptor.

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Adam, Jean-François  

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31 October 2011

French, 18th century, male.

Active in Paris.

Sculptor.

Admitted to the Académie de St-Luc in 1760. A master sculptor.

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Adam, Johan Gottfried Benjamin  

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31 October 2011

German, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born c. 1771; died 1813, in Dresden.

Sculptor.

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Adam, Lambert-Sigisbert  

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31 October 2011

French, 18th century, male.

Born 10 October 1700, in Nancy; died 13 May 1759, in Paris.

Sculptor.

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, eldest son of Jacob-Sigisbert Adam, first studied under his father, who recognised the boy's talent and sent him to Paris. He arrived there in May 1719...

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Adam, Laurent  

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31 October 2011

French, 15th century, male.

Active during the second half of the 15th century.

Born in Auxerre.

Sculptor. Religious subjects.

Laurent Adam sculpted the episcopal throne in Rouen Cathedral from 1465 to 1469. This work was lost during the French Revolution.

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Adam, Michel  

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31 October 2011

French, 16th century, male.

Born c. 1513, in Jargeau (Loiret).

Sculptor, architect.

Michel Adam spent time in Italy. Some biographers claim that he was a student of Michelangelo. He was certainly influenced by the Florentine master. On returning to France he settled in Orléans and was one of the many artists who contributed to the building of the 'Petits Logis' (mansions) that are one of the city's attractions....

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Adam, Miguel  

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31 October 2011

Spanish, 16th century, male.

Active in Sevillec.1590.

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Miguel Adam executed the carvings for the retable of the church of Santiago in Alcala de Guadaria, as well as other less important works. Although he was not the equal of Montanes, Mesa or Hernandez, these works earn him an honourable reputation among Spanish sculptors....

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Adam, Nicolas-Félix  

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31 October 2011

French, 18th century, male.

Born 1707, in Paris; died 19 July 1759, in Paris.

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No works by this artist are known. He was director of the Académie de St-Luc. His death certificate was drawn up in the parish of St-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in the presence of his son Jean-Félix Adam and of his brothers Jean and Jean-Baptiste, all sculptors. He was not one of the Adams of Nancy....

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Adam, Nicolas-Sébastien  

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31 October 2011

French, 18th century, male.

Born 22 March 1705, in Nancy; died 27 March 1778, in Paris.

Sculptor, art restorer, decorative designer.

The second son of Jacob-Sigisbert Adam, Nicolas-Sébastien Adam left Nancy at the age of 16 and went to continue his studies in Paris. He made rapid progress and became widely known. The treasurer general of Languedoc summoned him to the Château de La Mosson, near Montpellier, and commissioned him to embellish his château with sculptures. He remained there for four years and in ...

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Adam, S. L. (Mlle)  

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31 October 2011

French, 19th century, female.

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S.L. Adam's best-known work includes Study, a plaster-cast statue exhibited at the 1883 Salon; The Infant Diane, a statue in bronze for the 1888 Salon; General Bourbaki, a plaster bust, and the bronze statue of St John the Baptist for the Salon of ...

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Adam, Sigisbert  

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31 October 2011

French, 17th century, male.

Active in Nancy.

Sculptor.

He was the brother of the metal caster, Lambert Adam, and so was uncle to Jacob-Sigisbert Adam.