Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin

Self-portrait (1796)

Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (August 15, 1759 – April 13, 1832) was a French miniature painter.

Biography

Augustin was born in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and died in Paris. He first had some lessons from Jean-Baptiste Claudot and Jean Girardet in Nancy. After a few months in Dijon in 1780 he arrived in Paris in 1781 where he soon earned fame.

During the French Revolution days he travelled to Brittany, Switzerland and Germany

Back in Paris in 1800 he married one of his pupils, Pauline Ducruet. She was 22 years younger than he and herself a painter in a similar style.

In 1806 Jacques Augustin was appointed official painter to the court. Later on (1814) he became painter to the king.

He died of cholera in Paris in 1832 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Famous people painted by Augustin

Bacchante (ivory miniature of 1799)

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