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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

1724 - 1805

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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (called Lagrenée l'aîné, Lagrenée the elder) (30 December 1724 – 19 June 1805) 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 (called Lagrenée le jeune, Lagrenée the younger) was also a painter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée is the 1,174th most popular painter (down from 1,101st in 2019), the 3,219th most popular biography from France (down from 3,021st in 2019) and the 194th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 1,174 out of 2,023. Before him are Mykola Pymonenko, Zoran Mušič, Simon Marmion, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Arnold Houbraken, and Candido Portinari. After him are Guariento di Arpo, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Giovanni Battista Crespi, Maso di Banco, Mariam Aslamazian, and Antoine Coypel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 24. Before him are Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, Claude Balbastre, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf, and John Smeaton. After him are Gottfried Heinrich Bach, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Johann Julius Walbaum, Dai Zhen, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, and Ji Yun. Among people deceased in 1805, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 19. Before him are Mihrişah Sultan, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, William Paley, Pehr Osbeck, and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne. After him are Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, John Robison, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Conrad Moench, and Ji Yun.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 3,219 out of 6,770. Before him are Simon Marmion (1425), Charles Rollin (1661), Freya Stark (1893), Henri Brocard (1845), Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719), and Pierre Victor Auger (1899). After him are René Daumal (1908), Auguste Vaillant (1861), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), François Marie Daudin (1776), Étienne Mattler (1905), and Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 194. Before him are Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808), Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850), Nicolas Froment (1430), Antoine Caron (1521), Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828), and Simon Marmion (1425). After him are Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861), Antoine Coypel (1661), Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842), Marie-Denise Villers (1774), Edward Poynter (1836), and Eugène Isabey (1803).

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