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Lambert Darchis (baptised 31 July 1625; died 25 February 1699) was an arts patron from Liège. He is also thought to have been an ecclesiastic, but according to some sources his ordination has never been confirmed.




Life


Son of Jacques Darchis and Marguerite Froidmont, he was baptised in the church of Notre-Dame aux Fonts in Liège. From 1646 to his death he worked in Rome for the Roman Curia. His will was proven on 22 October 1696 and funded the creation of the 'fondation Lambert-Darchis', which granted travel bursaries to young artists, art restorers, art historians, engravers, composers and would-be ecclesiologists who had been born or were living in Liège or the surrounding diocese. The foundation still exists.




Recipients of the Fondation






= 18th century

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Jean-Noël Hamal (1709–1778), composer
Laurent-Benoît Dewez (1731–1812), architect
Léonard Defrance (1735–1805), painter
Joseph Dreppe (1737–1810), engraver
André Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), composer
Henri Hamal (1744–1820), composer




= 19th century

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Gilles-François Closson (1796–1842), painter
Louis-Eugène Simonis (1810–1882), sculptor
Jean-Mathieu Nisen (1819–1885), painter
Victor Fassin (1826–1906), painter
Adolphe Fassin (1828–1900), sculptor
Jules Halkin (1830–1888), sculptor
Léon Philippet (1843–1906), painter
Alphonse de Tombay (1843–1918), sculptor
Léon Mignon (1847–1898), sculptor
Adrien de Witte (1850–1935), painter and engraver
Joseph Pollard (1853–1922), sculptor




= 20th century

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François Maréchal (1861–1945), engraver
Richard Heintz (1871–1929), painter
Dieudonné Jacobs (1887–1967), painter
Jean-Pierre Ransonnet (born 1944), painter
Pierre Petry (1945–2017), sculptor
Claude Rahir (1937–2007), painter, sculptor, mosaicist




References






Bibliography (in French)


A. Micha, « La fondation Darchis », Bulletin de l'institut archéologique liégeois, Liège, t. XL, 1910, p. 99-115 (ISSN 0776-1260)
Jean Puraye, La Fondation Lambert-Darchis à Rome, Liège, Fondation Lambert Darchis, 1993, 424 p.
Jean Puraye, « Pierre-Joseph Antoine, boursier Darchis. », Bulletin de la société royale Le Vieux-Liège, t. XII, no 262, 1993, p. 441-451 (ISSN 0776-1309)

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