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Description: | Signed: yes Description: De Loutherbourg was born in Basel to Swiss parents. While his mother was keen for him to enter into the Lutheran ministry in Strasbourg, he himself was intent on becoming an artist. An interest in Protestant history emerges in some of De Loutherbourg's paintings, however; and in this work such references are combined with a return to his Swiss roots. The picturesque Castle of Chillon was where François de Bonivard was imprisoned for his role in the revolt of Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. The romanticism of the site also inspired Lord Byron in his poem of 1816. | Subjects: | Lake Geneva); buildings and gardens landscape; place (Castle of Chillon | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Loutherbourg, Philip James de (French painter and scenographer, 1740-1812, active in Great Britain) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8842... | Go to resource |
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