François-André Vincent

François -André Vincent ( born December 30, 1746 Paris, † August 4, 1816 ) was a French painter.

Life

François -André Vincent was the son of the Swiss painter François -Elie Vincent ( 1708-1790 ). He took his first drawing lessons from his father, who advised him strongly to continue their studies with the painter Joseph -Marie Vien. Vincent traveled to Italy, where in Rome he won the Prix de Rome in 1768. Back in France, he studied 1771-1775 at the Académie de France.

In 1790, Vincent was court painter to French King Louis XVI. appointed and two years later a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Along with Jacques -Louis David and Jean- Honoré Fragonard, he was one of the neoclassical movement in French art. In 1795 Vincent was one of the founding members of the Académie des Beaux -Arts.

Between 1792 and 1796 Vicent lived with his former pupil and life companion Adélaïde Labille - Guiard in a jointly acquired house in Seine- et- Marne. Due to the new marriage law could be located on 12 May 1793 divorce from her husband, the tax officials Nicolas Giuard. On 8 June 1799 he married his childhood girlfriend. However, the marriage lasted only four years since Madame Vincent, as she was now, in 1803, died in Paris. At the end of his life he could paint because of health problems any more. Among his pupils were, among others, Pierre- Nolasque Bergeret, Charles Thévenin, François- Joseph Heim, Mathieu Ignace van Bree, Charles Paul Landon and Isabelle Pinson.