Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières
Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières or was a Dutch-Danish merchant of French descent, landowner and amateur artist. He is remembered for his drawings and watercolours of landscapes from North Zealand.Biography
Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières was born on 27 November 1775 in The Hague, the son of the counselor Paulinus Philippus Henricus de Dompierre de Joncquières and Cecile de Coninck. Ancestors of his father had fled from France to Holland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. He achieved a doctoral degree in law from the Leiden University. The family moved to Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars. His father purchased Folehavegård at Hørsholm in 1898.
Dompierre de Jonquières worked as a merchant. He died unmarried and without children in 1820.Gallery
