Simon Denis

Flemish Artist · 1755–1813

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Flemish artist Simon Denis is not well known, but is best regarded as an early practitioner of plein-air painting. He was trained in his native city of Antwerp, and moved to Paris in the 1770s. About ten years later he relocated to Rome, where he spent the majority of his career. Although Denis was not an official student of French landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, he followed the el