Charles Joseph Flipart was a French

France

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 painter and engraver. He was born in Paris

Paris

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, the brother of Jean Jacques Flipart

Jean Jacques Flipart

Jean Jacques Flipart was a French engraver.-Biography:Flipart was born in Paris. His father was French engraver Jean Charles Flipart, under whom he received his initial training in the engraver's art...

, and initially trained under his father. He visited Venice, and studied painting under Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice...

 and Amigoni

Jacopo Amigoni

Jacopo Amigoni , also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand....

, and engraving under Joseph Wagner

Joseph Wagner

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. After staying some time at Rome

Rome

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 he was appointed court painter

Court painter

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 and engraver by King Ferdinand VI of Spain

Spain

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 in 1770. His best plates are the portraits of the King and the Queen of Spain. Some of his paintings are in two of the churches at Madrid

Madrid

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, where he died in 1797.