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portraitists. He painted among others the

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ambassador to France in 1742, Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Efendi. His father was a physician and he was orphaned when he was a little boy. He was raised in

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by one of his uncles, who was a captain in the Dutch Army. After his training in Amsterdam with

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and

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, Jacques Aved started working in Paris for Belle in 1721. He later entered the ''

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'' (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) in 1731 and he was appointed councillor after graduating in 1734 and in 1759, he took part in his last ''salon''. In 1753 he became a member of the

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.Jacques André Joseph Camellot Aved
in the

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As an art dealer and collector, he owned one of the most important collections with works by Italian, French and especially Dutch artists. This collection was sold at auction in 1766.

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, Dumont le Romain and

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were some of his pupils.

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