Like his Dutch father, Jean-Baptiste van Marcke de Lummen (1797-1849), Émile van Marcke was at first employed as a painter-decorator for the Manufacture de Porcelaine in Sèvres, where he met <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/constant-troyon">Constant Troyon</a> (1810-1865), another employee who influenced his career as an animal painter and who introduced him to the Barbizon painters. Van