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Antoine Noël Benoît Graincourt (1748–1823) was a French painter and miniaturist.''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: Unter Mitwirkung von etwa 400 Fachgelehrten''
by''Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays''
by Emmanuel Bénézit. Gründ, 1999. Page 158 on December 26, 1823.
Antoine Noël Benoît Graincourt (1748–1823) was a French painter and miniaturist.''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: Unter Mitwirkung von etwa 400 Fachgelehrten''by
Ulrich Thieme
Ulrich Thieme (31 January 1865 in Leipzig – 25 March 1922 in Leipzig) was a German art historian. He was the son of the industrialist and art collector Alfred Thieme (1830–1906), brother of the publisher Georg Thieme (1830–1906) and gr ...
, Hans Vollmer
Hans Vollmer (16 November 1878 – 15 February 1969) was a German art historian.
Life
His father was the architect (1845-1920), his grandfather of the Hamburg marine painter and sculptor Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (1806–1875). He was the older ...
and Felix Becker. Seemann, 1916. page 495. He was born in Corbie
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The small town is situated up river from Amiens, in the département of Somme and is the main town of the canton of Corbie. It lies ...
, Picardy
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in the Somme Valley
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on March 17, 1748 but moved away from his home region to Paris, where he trained under Gabriel François and Pierre Doyen and received a stipend from the Cardinal of Luynes. He painted portrait
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s of famous French military and naval figures both contemporary and from the recent past, including René Duguay-Trouin
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and François Louis de Rousselet, Marquis de Châteaurenault
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People with the given name
* Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France, King ...
. He died in Champeauxby Emmanuel Bénézit. Gründ, 1999. Page 158 on December 26, 1823.
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