Nicolas Louis Albert Delerive (1755 -1818) Boar hunting scene and hunting stop

Nicolas Louis Albert Delerive, signed lower left
1755 in Lille – 1818 in Lisbon
“Boar hunting scene and hunting stop”
Pair of Oils on wood. 46.5cm x 35cm
Stucco frame, gilded with gold, 19th century, Empire period.

At eighteen, he joined the Lille School of Fine Arts, Lille Academy of Arts, where he learned portraiture, miniatures and medal design. At the Lille Salon of Artists, he won a first prize in 1776. He worked for the painter Louis Joseph Watteau. In 1778, he left for Paris and continued his training in the workshop of Francesco Casanova, a specialist in battle scenes.
Returning to Lille, in 1785, he married Françoise Canceler, and set up as a painter of landscapes and hunting and battle scenes.
With the French Revolution, Nicolas Delerive, of Catholic religion, in disagreement with revolutionary ideas, decided, in 1790, to emigrate, first to Spain, then to Lisbon in Portugal. After having hispanized his name to Nicolau Delariva, he settled permanently in Lisbon in 1800.
Close to the royal court of Portugal, he created numerous royal portraits and, in 1814, that of the Duke of Wellington.
Nicolau Delariva died in 1818 in Lisbon.