Jacques-Henri Sablet (b. 28 Jan. 1749, † 22 Aug.1803)

• Was a Swiss-French painter.
• He was also known as Franz der Römer, Giacomo Sablez, Giacomo Sablé, Jacob Henry Sablet, Sablet le Jeune, Sablet le Romain or le peintre du Soleil.
• Sablet was born in Morges, near Lausanne.

• After a local training in Lausanne studying with his father, the painter and picture dealer Jacob Sablet, he was moving to Paris in 1772.

• There, he and his older brother Jean-François Sablet

studied at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture as pupils of Joseph-Marie Vien.

• When in 1775 Vien was named director of the French Academy in Rome, Sablet accompanied him there.

• His ambition was really to be a history painter, he won second prize at the Accademia di San Luca with "Erminie et les bergers" (1777) and first prize at the Parma competition with "La mort de Pallas" (1778).

• At the age of 32, he turned to portraiture, genre painting, and landscape painting.

• In 1782 he entered the Académie des Arcades de Rome and began to make a name for himself: he was a friend of Salomon Gessner, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Alexander Trippel, Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein and Carl Ludwig Hackert.

• Gustav III of Sweden would acquire "Les divertissements napolitains" (Neapolitan entertainments) and "Le dévouement d'un père de famille" (The Self-sacrifice of a Father).

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