Louis de Boullogne II (1654 – 1733) 

• Known as Boullogne fils, was a French painter.
• Boullogne was born and died in Paris.

• Their father, painter Louis Boullogne, trained his four children.

• His brother was Bon Boullogne.

• Louis, aged 18 he won the grand prix de peinture and left for Rome in 1676.

• He won a prize at the Accademia di San Luca for a drawing of "Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot".

• Returning through Lombardy and Venice in 1680, Louis arrived in Paris and soon won a great reputation.

• In 1681 he was received as a member of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture.

• On 3 February 1688 he married Marguerite Bacquet.

• He began to teach at the Academy in 1692.

• In 1701 Boullogne received a royal commission to paint Flora and Zephyr as part of the grand redecoration of Francis I's gallery at Fontainebleau.

• In 1722, he was chosen to design the medals and mottos for the Académie des inscriptions, receiving a new 1,000 livres pension and the ordre de Saint-Michel.

• He was made rector of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture; in 1725, first painter to the king, with letters patent of nobility for him and his descendants.

• In 1722, Boullogne became the Director of the Académie, a position he retained until his death in 1733.

• Louis Boullogne was buried at Saint-Eustache, parish of his birth. 

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