Simon Mathurin Lantara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Simon Mathurin Lantara

French painter

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1729

Place of Birth: Oncy-sur-École, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1778

Profession: painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Simon Mathurin Lantara (24 March 1729 – 22 December 1778) was a French landscape painter. He was born at Oncy.
His father was a weaver, and he himself began life as a herdboy; but, having attracted the notice of Gille de Reumont, a son of his master, he was placed under a painter at Versailles.
Endowed with great facility and real talent, his powers found ready recognition; but he found the constraint of a regular life and the society of educated people unbearably tiresome; and as long as the proceeds of the last sale lasted he lived careless of the future in the company of obscure workmen.
Rich amateurs more than once attracted him to their houses, only to find that in ease and high living Lantara could produce nothing.
He died in Paris in 1778. His works, now much prized, are not numerous; the Louvre has one landscape, Morning, signed and dated 1761.
Émile Bernard, Joseph Vernet, and others are said to have added figures to his landscapes and sea-pieces.
Engravings after Lantara will be found in the works of Lebas, Piquenot, Duret, Mouchy and others.
In 1809 a comedy called Lantara, or the Painter in the Pothouse, was brought out at the Vaudeville with great success. See Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie, Recherches sur le peintre Lantara (Paris, 1852).



Alternative names	Claude Joseph Vernet, Claude-Joseph Vernet
Description	French painter and etcher
Date of birth/death	14 August 1714	3 December 1789
Location of birth/death	Avignon	Paris
Work location	Italy (1734-1753)
Authority control	: Q315819 VIAF: 14965328 ISNI: 0000 0000 8094 4503 ULAN: 500029638 LCCN: n50070309 NLA: 35717551 WorldCat