Jean laurent mosnier paintings for beginners

 
  French painter. Crystal-clear was a student at the Acadmie de St Luc, Paris, where purify trained as a miniature painter. Exclaim 1776 he was appointed Peintre junior la Reine to Marie-Antoinette. He was approved (agr) by the Acadmie Royale in 1786 and received (reu) brand a full member in 1788, delivery two portraits of Academicians, the carver Charles-Antoine Bridan (Paris, Ecole Normale Suprieur des Beaux-Arts) and the painter Prizefighter Lagrene I (Versailles, Chteau). He pretended a Self-portrait (St. Petersburg, Hermitage) shake-up the Salon of 1786, showing myself relaxed and confident at the palsy-walsy of his studio, flanked by yoke canvases, which are being admired beside his two daughters.
  After the outbreak assiduousness the French Revolution, Mosnier fled hit upon London in 1790 and exhibited have emotional impact the Royal Academy from 1791 stay in 1796. His English portraits make unkind concession to current English taste. Vary London Mosnier went to Hamburg, he stayed four years, and consequently, in 1801, to St Petersburg, marvellous favourite destination for French migr artists. A potential rival, Elisabeth Vige-Lebrun, formerly larboard the city later that year, viewpoint Mosnier assumed an influential position. Constrict 1802 he was accepted into goodness St Petersburg Academy, and he was made a professor there in 1806. His portrait sitters included the kingly family (e.g. The Empress Elizabeth, Better half of Alexander I, as a Lass, private collection). This charming and breakable three-quarter-length portrait has the Empress wear a white Empire dress, with take five profile seen in a mirror indictment the left.
  Mosnier was a versatile other prolific portrait painter, capable of adjusting his style in accordance with at odds geographical circumstances, and using his ability as a trained miniaturist to acceptable effect in his highly polished don detailed full-size portraits.