Gilles Hallet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGilles Hallet
Flemish Baroque painter
Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1620
Place of Birth: Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
Date of Death: 25-Feb-1694
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Gilles Hallet
- Gilles Alé (or Hallet; 1620 in Liege – 1694 in Rome), a Flemish painter, worked in the latter half of the 17th century, and was distinguished for the purity of his style, according to the principles of the Roman school.
- According to the RKD he was the son of Jean Hallet who married the sister of Walther Damery.
- He studied under this uncle, along with his other uncle Jacques Damery.
- He travelled to Rome where he worked most of his life.He painted in conjunction with Morandi, Bonatti, and Romanelli; and executed an altar-piece in oil, and the ceilings of the chapels in fresco, for the church of Santa Maria dell' Anima in Rome.
- Most of the paintings by him in Liege were destroyed when the French bombarded that town in 1691.
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