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Francois Andre Vincent
François-André Vincent (1746 –1816 ) was a French neoclassical painter.
He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien . He travelled to Rome , where he won the Prix de Rome 1768 . From 1771 to 1775 he studied there at the Académie de France .
In 1790 Vincent was appointed master of drawings to Louis XVI of France , and in 1792 he became a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture Paris . In 1800 he married the painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard .
Belisarius by François-André Vincent, painted 1776
He was a leader of the neoclassical and historical movement in French art, along with his rival Jacques-Louis David , another pupil of Vien. He was influenced by the art of classical antiquity , by the masters of the Italian High Renaissance , especially Raphael , and among his contemporaries, Jean-Honoré Fragonard .
He was one of the founder members of the Académie des beaux-arts — part of the Institut de France and the successor to the Académie royale — in 1795 . Towards the end of his life he painted less due to ill health, but he continued to receive official honours.
External links Portrait of Baron Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), Whitfield Fine Art
