Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin

Jean -Baptiste Jacques Augustin ( born August 15, 1759 in Saint- Dié, † April 13, 1832 in Paris) was a French painter. He was known for his portraits and miniatures.

Augustin first took lessons from Jean -Baptiste Claudot and Jean Girardet in Nancy. After a few months in Dijon, he came to Paris in 1781, where he quickly gained notoriety. In the times of the French Revolution, he traveled through the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Back in Paris, he married in 1800 a his pupils, 22 years younger, Pauline Ducruet, a descendant of Jean de La Fontaine. 1806 Augustin official court painter, 1814, he was appointed the painter of the king. 1832 Augustin died of cholera. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Famous people that were painted by Augustin

• Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France and Navarre
• Napoleon I and his family
• Louis XVIII. , King of France
• Louis-Philippe, the last king of France
• Marquise de Segonzac
• Madame Recamier
• Madame Van Hée born Dewinck, wife of the banker
• General Laconpérie
• Charles Antoine Callamard Paris, Louvre
• Louis Hector de Saint -Marc Chalot, Bishop
• Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
• Antoine Denis Chaudet, sculptor
• Madame de Kercado
• Louis Joseph Auguste Coutan
• Marie Joseph Georges Rousse, president of the Chamber of Notaries in Paris
• Anne de Dorat, Countess Coiffier de Moret
• Anne Josephe Théroigne Méricourt, French revolutionary