Lucienne de Saint-Mart

Lucienne de Saint-Mart (1866 - 1953) was a French painter who for eight years was a court painter for Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

Biography

Lucienne de Saint-Mart was the daughter of French writer Louis Lemercier de Neuville. She was born in Laval, France in 1866 and trained as a painter from 1880.^[1]

Between 1910 and 1918, she was a portrait painter at the court of Nicholas II in Russia, where she painted miniatures of the tsar's children and a portrait of the tsar. She left Russia during the 1917 revolution.^[1]

Saint-Mart later lived in the United States, in New York and New Orleans, before settling in California in 1934. She died in Laguna Beach in 1953.^[2]

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