Antoine Noël Benoît GraincourtSupplement to Mallett's Index of Artists, International-biographical: Including Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Engravers and Etchers of the Past and the Present Not in the 1935 Edition by Daniel Trowbridge Mallett. P. Smith, 1948. page 107. (17 March 1748 – 26 December 1823)Lorient, XVIIIè siècle by Florence D'Souza. Musée de la Compagnie des Indes, 1997. page 25. , was a French painter who specialised in portrait miniatures.Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: Unter Mitwirkung von etwa 400 Fachgelehrten by Ulrich Thieme, Hans Vollmer and Felix Becker. Seemann, 1916. page 495. He was born in Corbie, Picardy in the Somme Valley on 17 March 1748 but moved away from his home region to Paris,L'art de la Picardie by Georges Durand. Fontemoing & cie., 1913. page 53. where he trained under Gabriel François and Pierre Doyen and received a stipend from the Cardinal of Luynes.Mémoires et documents by France Commission d'histoire économique et sociale de la Révolution française. Bibliothèque nationale, 1965. v.18-19. page 19. He painted portraits of famous French military and naval figuresCatalogue descriptif et raisonné des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque communale de la ville d'Amiens by Jacques Jean Baptiste Adolphe Garnier, Bibliothèque municipale, Amiens. Imp. de Duval et Herment, 1843. page 440. both contemporary and from the recent past, including René Duguay-Trouin and François Louis de Rousselet, Marquis de Châteaurenault. He died in ChampeauxDictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays by Emmanuel Bénézit. Gründ, 1999. Page 158 on 26 December 1823.
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