Jean-Baptiste Gilles (or Gille; 1680–1762), known as Colson, was a French painter of portraits in miniature and water-colours. He was born at

Verdun Verdun (, , , ; official name before 1970 ''Verdun-sur-Meuse'') is a large city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital ...

, and assumed his mother's surname of Colson, because the theatres of the fairs had brought ridicule upon the name of Gilles. Colson, who was a pupil of Christophe, and a member of the

Academy of St. Luke The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

, died in Paris in 1762.

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* 1680 births 1762 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters 18th-century French painters People from Verdun French portrait miniaturists Painters from Paris 18th-century French male artists {{france-painter-17thC-stub