Figures on an estuary with a ship careened in the background

Born in Lyon in 1695, Adrien Manglard spent much of his career in Rome. Manglard trained under his godfather, Adriaen van der Cabel, a student of Jan van Goyen. The traditions of Golden Age Dutch landscape painting greatly influenced Manglard’s burgeoning style. Arriving in Rome sometime around 1715, Manglard achieved great success, bolstered by his acceptance into the Académie Royal de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris in 1734 and the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1735. Manglard’s patrons included noble Roman dynasties such as the Orsini, Colonna and Chigi families. Best known for his seascapes, Manglard also created landscapes, vedute and murals. The Chigi family commissioned him to decorate two rooms with frescoes in 1748, known as the Sala delle Marine and the Sala dei Paesaggi Boscosi. The woodland murals in the Sala dei Paesaggi Boscosi have long been covered due to damage in a 1915 earthquake, but the Sala delle Marine is still in use. Now the Italian Prime Minister’s official residence, the Sala delle Marine is the official dining room for foreign dignitaries. Manglard’s legacy of marine landscapes suffused with Italian light was carried on by his best known student, Claude-Joseph Vernet.