In 1726, Antoine Rivalz ounded a school of art independent from the Parisian school. In 1750 it became the Toulouse Royal Academy of painting and sculpture. Toulouse was the only place outside of Paris to have benefited from such royal patronage. Jean-François Lassave, Jacques Gamelin, Jean-Baptiste Despax, and Pierre Subleyras, renowned Toulouse artists, studied at the Academy and prolonged the classicist tendency of their master. Each one then developed his own individual style. At this time, the Toulouse school was mainly producing religious and decorative paintings as well as portraits. Portraiture was so popular that it constituted the main source of the artists' income. Unfortunately, a number of these works disappeared during the revolution and those which have come down to us represent a fraction of the local artistic heritage of the time (we estimate that only about 10% of the works dating from the 17th and 18th centuries are housed in the Augustins museum).