Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (born 1724)

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

French painter (1724–1805)

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée was a French rococo painter and student of Carle van Loo. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1749 and was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1755. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagrenée was also a…