Jacques-André-Joseph Aved
"Camelot"
1702- 1766
Jacques-Andre-Joseph Aved was a French painter and collector.
His father, Jean-Baptiste Havet, was a doctor of Armenian origin. He died when Jacques was a child. He was brought up in Amsterdam by his step-father, a captain in the Dutch Guards. At 16 he is said to have become a pedlar or 'camelot', the nickname given to him by his French acquaintances, traveling through the Netherlands and drawing portraits at fairs.
In 1721, after spending short periods in the Amsterdam studios of the French engraver Bernard Picart and of the draughtsman François Boitard, he went to work in the Paris studio of the fashionable portrait painter Alexis-Simon Belle. At this time he met other notable painters including Carle Vanloo and the portrait painters Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Jean-Baptiste Perroneau, Jean-Etienne Liotard and lasting friend Jean-Siméon Chardin, with whom he may have collaborated on occasion. They used similar techniques, and he may have encouraged Chardin to turn from still-life painting to figure painting in the 1730s.
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