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{{other people|Jean Humbert}}

'''Jean Humbert de Superville''' ([[Amsterdam]], 7 May 1734 – buried [[Amstelveen]], 22 September 1794) was a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] painter of [[Swiss people|Swiss]] and [[French people|French]] extraction. Humbert was primarily known as a portrait painter.

Humbert was the son of Pierre Humbert, a merchant from [[Geneva]] who had settled in Amsterdam in 1706 as a bookseller and publisher, and his second wife Emilie de Superville, daughter of [[Daniel de Superville (1657-1728)|Daniel de Superville]], a [[calvinism|Calvinist]] theologian from [[Saumur]] who had fled to the Dutch republic in 1685.

Humbert studied painting in [[Paris]], where he served as apprentice to [[Jean Fournier (painter)|Jean Fournier]] and subsequently probably also to [[Joseph-Marie Vien]]. In 1761 or 1762 he moved from Amsterdam to [[The Hague]]. In 1767 he became an apprentice of the academy of drawing of the local painter's guild [[Confrerie Pictura]]. In 1787 he was chosen as one of the guild officers and in 1792 he was even elected as head of the guild.

He painted portraits as well as historic and mythological subjects. His portrait subjects included [[Dutch East India Company]] official [[Abraham du Bois (1713-1774)|Abraham du Bois]] (1760), politician [[Hendrik Fagel (1765-1838)|Hendrik Fagel]] (1766) and writer [[Isabelle de Charrière]] (1769). The portrait of du Bois originally hung in the Dutch East India Company offices in [[Rotterdam]], but is now part of the collection of the [[Rijksmuseum Amsterdam|Rijksmuseum]] in Amsterdam.

Humbert designed the ornate decorations of the facade of The Hague's town hall during the wedding of [[Stadtholder]] [[William V, Prince of Orange|William V]] to [[Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820)|Wilhelmina of Prussia]] in 1767. He also painted a room in the courthouse of The Hague. A work by Humbert hung in the stadtholder quarters at the [[Binnenhof]] but it was removed around 1808 along with a number of other paintings during a remodeling ordered by king [[Louis Bonaparte]], who had used the stadtholder quarters as a royal palace since 1806.

In 1768, Humbert married Elisabeth Antoinette Deel. The marriage produced seven children, including:
* [[Jean Emile Humbert]], a military engineer credited with rediscovering ancient [[Carthage]]
* [[David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville]], a scholar and artist who wrote the influential ''Essai sur les signes inconditionnels dans l'art''.

==External links==
* [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-4524 Rijksmuseum.nl: Portrait of Abraham du Bois, painted by Jean Humbert]

==Sources==
* [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/molh003nieu10_01/molh003nieu10_01_0598.htm Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek] (Dutch)
* [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa002184901_01/_jaa002184901_01_0024.htm Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek] (Dutch)
* [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/molh003nieu05_01/molh003nieu05_01_1078.htm Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek] (Dutch)
* [http://www.denhaag.nl/smartsite.html?id=44382 Pieter Wagenaar, Marie-Christine Engels en Chales Dumas: ''Den Haag: Geschiedenis van de stad''. Deel 2: De tijd van de republiek. Zwolle, 2005] (Dutch)
* [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/oh/2003/00000116/F0020003/art00001 Trudie Rosa de Carvalho-Roos, "Hoe houdt de stadhouder hof?" ''Oud Holland'', Vol. 116, Nrs. 3-4, 2003, pp. 121-223] (Dutch)

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