Jean-Urbain Guérin
Jean-Urbain Guérin (1760 – 29 October 1836)Acte de décès 130 de la page 36 de 50 d'Obernai, cote du registre 1836 - 4 E 348/31
online on the site of the archives départementales du Bas-Rhin. was a French draughtsman and miniaturist. With Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Jacques Augustin, he is still held to be one of the most notable miniaturists of his time. Guérin himself wrote in his accounts book that in 1791 he produced a portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was a friend of queen Marie-Antoinette of Austria, Marie-Antoinette. He also painted Marie-Antoinette herself and her husband Louis XVI and drew portraits of several deputies of the third estate in 1785, which were later engraved by Franz Gabriel Fiesinger. After the French Revolution he also painted portraits of se ...
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