Lambert Darchis (baptised 31 July 1625; died 25 February 1699) was an arts patron from Liège. He is also thought to have been an ecclesiastic, but according to some sources his ordination has never been confirmed.
Life Son of Jacques Darchis and Marguerite Froidmont, he was baptized in the Church of Notre-Dame aux Fonts in Liège on July 31, 1625. From 1646 to 1699, he worked in Rome in the service of the Roman Curia, before dying there on February 25, 1699.
Son of Jacques Darchis and Marguerite Froidmont, he was baptised in the church of Notre-Dame aux Fonts in Liège. From 1646 to his death he worked in Rome for the Roman Curia. His will was proven on 22 October 1696 and funded the creation of the 'fondation Lambert-Darchis', which granted travel bursaries to young artists, art restorers, art historians, engravers, composers and would-be ecclesiologists who had been born or were living in Liège or the surrounding diocese. The foundation still exists.
Recipients of the Fondation 18th century Jean-Noël Hamal (1709–1778), composer Laurent-Benoît Dewez (1731–1812), architect Léonard Defrance (1735–1805), painter Joseph Dreppe (1737–1810), engraver André Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), composer Henri Hamal (1744–1820), composer
19th century Gilles-François Closson (1796–1842), painter Louis-Eugène Simonis (1810–1882), sculptor Jean-Mathieu Nisen (1819–1885), painter Victor Fassin (1826–1906), painter Adolphe Fassin (1828–1900), sculptor Jules Halkin (1830–1888), sculptor Léon Philippet (1843–1906), painter Alphonse de Tombay (1843–1918), sculptor Léon Mignon (1847–1898), sculptor Adrien de Witte (1850–1935), painter and engraver Joseph Pollard (1853–1922), sculptor
20th century François Maréchal (1861–1945), engraver Richard Heintz (1871–1929), painter Dieudonné Jacobs (1887–1967), painter Jean-Pierre Ransonnet (born 1944), painter Pierre Petry (1945–2017), sculptor Claude Rahir (1937–2007), painter, sculptor, mosaicist
References
Bibliography (in French) A. Micha, « La fondation Darchis », Bulletin de l'institut archéologique liégeois, Liège, t. XL, 1910, p. 99-115 (ISSN 0776-1260) Jean Puraye, La Fondation Lambert-Darchis à Rome, Liège, Fondation Lambert Darchis, 1993, 424 p. Jean Puraye, « Pierre-Joseph Antoine, boursier Darchis. », Bulletin de la société royale Le Vieux-Liège, t. XII, no 262, 1993, p. 441-451 (ISSN 0776-1309)