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James Parmentier worked in  which location in late 1670s?
James Parmentier James Parmentier ( 1658 – 2 December 1730 ) , also known as Jacques Parmentier was a French painter who spent much of his career in England , partly in London and partly in Yorkshire . Life . Parmentier was born in France in 1658 . He initially studied art under his uncle , Sébastien Bourdon , who died in 1671 . After some further instruction from another relation , Parmentier went to England in September 1676 , to work under the decorative painter Charles de La Fosse , who was then painting the ceilings at Montagu House in Bloomsbury . He came to the attention of William III , who sent him to work at his palace of Het Loo in Holland , but his employment there came to a premature end following a dispute with Daniel Marot , then surveyor of the royal palaces in Holland . While in the Netherlands Parmentier painted the ceiling and two chimney-pieces in the chief room of the royal palace at Binnenhof . He was a member of the guild of St Luke at The Hague , becoming a master on 1 December 1698 . Parmentier returned to London , but unable to find sufficient patronage there , he accepted an invitation to go to Yorkshire , where he painted many portraits . In 1711 he was paid £50 to paint an altarpiece showing the Last Supper for the church of the Holy Trinity Church at Hull . It survives , although in a mutilated condition . He also executed a ceiling painting on the theme of Moses receiving the law for St . Peters Church at Leeds , and decorated staircases at Worksop Manor for the Duke of Norfolk , and at the house of John Atkinson , a former mayor of Leeds . Following the death of Louis Laguerre in 1721 Parmentier returned to London , hoping to succeed to his practice as a decorative painter . During this London sojourn he became a member of a masonic music club called the Philo-musicae et -architecturae societas Apollini , which met at the Queens Head tavern on Fleet Street near Temple Bar . Parmentier may have been hoping that freemasonry might provide a viable source of patronage for him , and it is known that he did get some work through the club , as its minute-book records that when the tavern changed its name to the Apollo tavern in recognition of its musical clientele , Parmentier painted the new sign . He did not , however , achieve his hoped-for success in London , and was on the point of returning to the Netherlands , where he had been invited to spend the rest of his life with relatives at Amsterdam , when he died on 2 December 1730 . He was buried in St Pauls , Covent Garden . His paintings of Charles II and of Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Evremond are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery , London ; another of St Evremond ( 1701 ) is at Knole . External links . Images of works by James Parmentier at the National Portrait Gallery , London