Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu

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Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu (fl. c1770 - 1815) was a French painter. She was born at La Rochelle and studied painting under Greuze. she established herself as a successful artist, specializing in historical and mythological genres and portraiture. She ran a school at Lille, in Flanders until the activities of the Revolution. With the restoration of the Bourbons (1814 - 1815) she was granted a state pension. Several of her works survive, including a portrait of Princess Elisabeth Lubomirksa which remains in the National Museum of Warsaw in Poland.

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  • G. Greer, The Obstacle Race (1979)