Pierre-Alexandre Wille
Pierre-Alexandre Wille said "Wille's son," born in Paris , where he died after Is a painter of French genre.
Son of the engraver Johann Georg Wille , Pierre-Alexandre was introduced to the art in the studio of his father, and through the relationships it could quite easily happen. Approved by the Academy June 25, 1774, he took part since most salons and certain exhibitions of the Match Show in 1775, 1777, 1779, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1787 and 1819; He sent a watercolor, but he did not become an academician.
The Revolution ruined the same time the father and son. The latter's wife, Claude Abau-Paule, whom he married July 4, 1775 in Saint-André-des-Arts , became mad after a sick twelve years and sorrows cruel and we had the Enclose at the royal house of Charenton. Wille, who was then 72, had to ask to pay support of his wife, a relief of the Duchesse d'Angouleme in 1821. He himself has probably ended his days in poverty in a hospital because research archives Of the city hall of Paris to find the traces of his death were in vain.
Wille son drew a picture of his father (1774), a portrait of his mother, Marie-Louise Deforge (1774), his own portrait (1773), a portrait of M me Wille, that of Georges-Jacques Danton Day execution, set in 2015 at the Museum of the Conciergerie in Paris 1 st (unless either there a work of his father the engraver Johann Georg Wille?) and the Vernet sculptor , nephew of painter , Executed the bust of P.-A. Wille.
