Claude Arnulphy and Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746).
His portrait of Thomas Mathews (pictured) is one of four surviving portraits he painted of officers of a Royal Navy fleet lying off Toulon between 1742 and 1744. Three of these are now in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.
In February 1732, Arnulphy married Marguerite Aubaye, and they had ten children, of whom seven were sons. However, only one child, according to different sources a son named Joseph or François Arnulphy (died 1825) survived childhood.
In 1765, as the result of the Will of Honoré Armand de Villars, a new drawing school was established which became known as the École de dessin d'Aix-en-Provence, with the painter Charles Marcel Aune as its first principal and Arnulphy as his deputy. In 1785, Aune resigned the headship of the school to travel to North America, and Arnulphy took over from him. However, being by then aged no less than eighty-eight, he chose a successor in the shape of a much younger man, Jean-Antoine Constantin.
Arnulphy also held a variety of public offices in Aix, including those of syndic and treasurer. He died on 22 June 1786 and was buried the next day in the Récollets cemetery at Aix. Constantin duly succeeded him at the école de dessin.

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