Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu ( fl. c. 1770 - 1815) was a French painter. She was born at

La Rochelle La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle''; oc, La Rochèla ) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. With ...

and studied painting under

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Jean-Baptiste Greuze (, 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting. Biography Early life Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed h ...

. She established herself as a successful artist, specializing in historical and mythological genres and portraiture. She ran a school at

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, in

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, until the outbreak of the

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. With the restoration of the

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(1814–1815) she was granted a state pension. Several of her works survive, including a portrait of Princess Elisabeth Lubomirksa which remains in the

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in Poland.

References

*''G. Greer, The Obstacle Race (1979)'' 1770 births 1815 deaths French women painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French women artists 19th-century French painters 19th-century French women artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub