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| Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, circa 1740. |
Count Carl Gustaf Tessin (5 September 1695 - 7 January 1770), Swedish politician, art collector, and ambassador to France.
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| Marc de Villiers, 1747. |
Marc de Villiers (1671 - 1762), Secretary to Louis XV. Surrounded by state papers, he's portrayed while reading from a copy of the Iliad.
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Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (12 January 1702, Douai - 4 March 1766, Paris), nicknamed le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), French painter of the eighteenth century and one of the best known French Rococo portraitists. The son of a physician, he was orphaned while still a small child and was raised in Amsterdam by an uncle, a captain in the Dutch Army. After training in Amsterdam with the French artists François Boitard and Bernard Picart, he moved to Paris where he joined the studio of Alexis-Simon Belle in 1721. He later entered at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1731 and was appointed Councillor after graduating in 1734. Carle Van Loo, François Boucher, and Chardin were among his pupils. He was also a noted art collector, his impressive collection being sold after his death. In 1759, he took part in his last Salon, and died seven years later at the age of sixty-four.
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