Pierre Alexandre Wille

Pierre-Alexandre Wille , known as "Wille le fils", born on July 19, 1748 in Paris , where he died after January 9 , 1821 is a painter of French genre.

Son of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille , Pierre-Alexandre was introduced to art in his father's studio and, thanks to the latter's relations, could quite easily occur. Accredited by the Academy on June 25, 1774, he took part in most Salons as well as in some exhibitions of the Salon de la Correspondance in 1775, 1777, 1779, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1787, and in 1819; he sent a watercolor, but he did not become an academician.

The Revolution ruined the father and the son at the same time. His wife, Claude-Paule Abau, whom he married on July 4, 1775 in Saint-André-des-Arts , went mad after twelve years of illness and cruel sorrow and had to lock up at the royal house of Charenton. Wille, who was then 72 years old, had to ask for help from the Duchess of Angouleme in 1821 to pay for his wife's pension. He himself probably ended his days in misery in some hospital because the research in the archives from the Paris city hall to find the traces of his death were vain.

Wille fils drew the portrait of his father (1774), the portrait of his mother, Marie-Louise Deforge (1774), his own portrait (1773), the portrait of Mrs. Wille, that of Georges-Jacques Danton the day of his performance, exhibited in 2015 at the Museum of the Conciergerie in Paris 1 st (unless it is a work of his father the engraver Jean-Georges Wille?), and the sculptor Vernet , nephew of the painter , executed the bust of P.-A. Wille.

From French Wikipedia, translated by Google.