Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (12 January 1702 – 4 March 1766), also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French
Rococo portraitists. He painted among others the
Ottoman Empire ambassador to France in 1742,
Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Efendi.[1]
His father was a physician and he was orphaned when he was a little boy. He was raised in
Amsterdam by one of his uncles, who was a captain in the Dutch Army.[2]
As an art dealer and collector, he owned one of the most important collections with works by Italian, French and especially Dutch artists. This collection was sold at auction in 1766.
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Wildenstein, Georges (1922). Le peintre Aved, sa vie et son oeuvre (catalogue raisonné) (in French). Paris: Les Beaux-Arts.
OCLC797994545. Vol.
1 and
2 available via the Internet Archive.
Prevost, Michel (1948). "Aved (Jacques-André-Joseph)". In Prevost, Michel; Roman d'Amat, Jean-Charles (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 4. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. cols. 841–842.
OCLC922284766.
Urra Muena, Želmíra (1992). "Aved, Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot (Jacques), gen. (Aved) le Batave". In Kasten, Eberhard; et al. (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 5. München, Leipzig: Saur. pp. 717–718.
ISBN3-598-22745-0.
OCLC311641678.
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