Adrien Manglard was born on 10 March 1695 in the city of
Lyon,
Kingdom of France, the firstborn of Edmond (called Aimé) Manglard and Catherine Rose du Perrier (or Dupérier). He was baptized in the church of Saint-Vincent on March 12 of the same year. Manglard's father was a modest painter originally from Paris, the son of Jean Manglard, a Parisian
bourgeois, and lady Anne Alliot. Manglard's mother was the daughter of Antoine Dupérier, a bookseller and merchant, and Esprite de Tassi. Both Manglard's parents lost their fathers at a young age. Dupérier's mother later remarried to local painter Pierre Savournin, to whom Jean Manglard asked for her hand. His parents were married on 21 May 1693 in the
Basilica of Saint-Martin d'Ainay. Beside Adrien they had two other children, Pierre, born 1700, and Daniel, born in 1702. His family suffered the economic repercussions of the famine caused by the
Little Ice Age's extremely cold weather, which led to the
seven ill years in Scotland and the remarkably cold
Le Grand Hiver in France, with the subsequent famine estimated to have caused 600,000 deaths by the end of 1710 in France. In 1707, Manglard's two brothers Pierre and Daniel were left at the
Hôpital de la Charité, an orphanage in Lyon, to which they were admitted as
délaissés (abandoned). Manglard studied under
Adriaen van der Cabel in Lyon. Van der Cabel was a
Dutch Golden Age landscapist and a pupil of
Jan van Goyen who, like Manglard, traveled to Rome in his youth, where he sojourned from 1656 to 1674—his Dutch style coming under the influence of the Romano-Bolognese landscape painting. As a student of van der Cabel, Manglard was influenced by the Dutch Golden age landscape painting, as well as the Italianized Dutch painting style typical of the seventeenth century. Manglard later moved from Lyon to
Marseille, or
Avignon, where he studied under the Carthusian painter
Joseph Gabriel Imbert (1666–1749), The painting is now lost. Rome based sculptor Pierre Le Gros acquired six marine views by Manglard. Le Gros died in 1719, which makes these six seascapes the earliest documented paintings by Manglard. Manglard came to Rome simply as a "tourist"; he wasn't under the protection of the
French Academy, which would welcome him as a full member in 1736. In 1722 he was probably already enjoying some degree of fame in Rome. Manglard started to enjoy the patronage of notable commissioners at least since the mid-1720s. In the 1720s he started working for the
Corte Sabauda, to which he sent two paintings from Rome in 1726. Manglard's talent as a marine painter "was such that his career advanced rapidly: prestigious clients included Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy and King of Piedmont, who bought two matching pieces from him in 1726 (Turin,
Galleria Sabauda), and Philip, Duke of Parma." Philip alone commissioned more than 140 paintings from Manglard to decorate his
palaces. Manglard also enjoyed the patronage of the most important Roman families, including the
Colonna, the
Orsini, the
Rondani, the
Rospigliosi and the
Chigi. For the Chigi he frescoed two rooms on the
piano nobile of the Palazzo Chigi, today the
official residence of the
Prime Minister of Italy. On 8 June 1728 Catherine Rose du Perrier, Manglard's mother, died in
Avignon. Manglard presumably went back to Avignon on this occasion. The same year, his brother Daniel left for
Martinique. Three years later, Manglard's father Edmond left France forever. After a career in Italy which spanned over forty years, Manglard died in Rome on 1 August 1760. Beside being a painter, Manglard was also an art collector. In January 1761, Rome notary J. L. Vannoi drew up the inventory for Manglard's collection. Manglard's universal successor was his brother Pierre, then resident in Paris. ==Work==