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James Parmentier (1658 – 2 December 1730), also known as Jacques Parmentier was a French painter who spent much of his career in England, partly in London and partly in Yorkshire. ==Life== Parmentier was born in France in 1658. He initially studied art under his uncle, Sébastien Bourdon, who died in 1671. After some further instruction from another relation, Parmentier went to England in September 1676, to work under the decorative painter Charles de La Fosse, who was then painting the ceilings at Montagu House in Bloomsbury. He came to the attention of William III, who sent him to work at his palace of Het Loo in Holland, but his employment there came to a premature end following a dispute with Daniel Marot, then surveyor of the royal palaces in Holland. While in the Netherlands Parmentier painted the ceiling and two chimney-pieces in the chief room of the royal palace at Binnenhof. He was a member of the guild of St Luke at The Hague, becoming a master on 1 December 1698.〔 Parmentier returned to London, but unable to find sufficient patronage there, he accepted an invitation to go to Yorkshire, where he painted many portraits.〔 In 1711 he was paid £50 to paint an altarpiece showing the Last Supper for the church of the Holy Trinity Church at Hull. It survives, although in a mutilated condition. He also executed a ceiling painting on the theme of Moses receiving the law for St. Peter's Church at Leeds, and decorated staircases at Worksop Manor for the Duke of Norfolk,〔 and at the house of John Atkinson, a former mayor of Leeds.〔 The house was at the corner of Call-lane and Duncan-street in Leeds.〕 Following the death of Louis Laguerre in 1721 Parmentier returned to London, hoping to succeed to his practice as a decorative painter. He did not, however, achieve this, and he was on the point of returning to the Netherlands, where he had been invited to spend the rest of his life with relatives at Amsterdam, when he died in London on 2 December 1730.〔 He was buried in St Paul's, Covent Garden.〔 The DNB cites as references Vertue's Diaries (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 23076); Redgrave's ''Dictionary of Artists''; Dussieux's Artistes Français à l'Etranger''; and Obreen's ''Archief voor Nederlandsche Kunstgeschiedenis'', v. 139.〕 His paintings of Charles II and of Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Evremond are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London; another of St Evremond (1701) is at Knole.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=BBC Your Paintings )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Parmentier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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