Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières

Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières or (27 November 1775 - 27 May 1820) was a Dutch-Danish merchant of French descent, landowner and amateur artist. He is remembered for his drawings and watercolours of landscapes from North Zealand.

Biography

Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières was born on 27 November 1775 in The Hague, the son of the counselor Paulinus Philippus Henricus de Dompierre de Joncquières (13 August 1744 – 12 May 1822) and Cecile de Coninck (4 November 1748 – 12 June 1819). Ancestors of his father had fled from France to Holland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.[1] He achieved a doctoral degree in law from the Leiden University.[2] The family moved to Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars. His father purchased Folehavegård at Hørsholm in 1898.

Dompierre de Jonquières worked as a merchant. He died unmarried and without children in 1820.

  • Folehavegård
  • Vallerød
gollark: ... thured?
gollark: Or my 14G messy thuwed red.
gollark: I will breed the prize with my 29G messy aeon.
gollark: Can get golds, can't get random eggs from coast.
gollark: I fully expect people to put up ridiculous trades for low-time CB coast dragons on the 29th.

References
  1. Jonquieres (Jean François de Dompierre de) in Van der Aa e.a., Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden
  2. "Kunstner: Jean-Francois de Dompiere de Jonquières". Kunstindeks Danmark (in Danish). Retrieved 27 September 2018.
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