Claude Lorrain

1600 - Born into poverty in the village of Chamagne

1625 - He returned to Rome in April and was apprenticed to the now-infamous Augustin Tassi.

1627 - Lorrain returned to Rome. Here, two landscapes made for Cardinal Bentivoglio earned him the patronage of Pope Urban VIII.

1637 - He rapidly achieved fame as a painter of landscapes and seascapes.

1682 - Claude, who suffered much from gout, died in Rome at the age of eighty-two, on either 21st November or 23rd November.