François-Élie Vincent

François-Élie Vincent (20 June 1708 – 28 March 1790) was a French painter of portrait miniatures.[1]

Vincent was born in Geneva and moved to Paris around 1745, where he was active as painter and teacher at the Académie de Saint-Luc.[2] Vincent Among his pupils were his son, François-André Vincent, a notable painter and a leader of the neoclassical movement, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, one of the first women to enter the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.

References

  1. ^ ULAN; RKD
  2. ^ "François-Elie Vincent". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.

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