Jean-François Garneray (1755 in

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– 11 June 1837 in Auteuil) was a French painter. He was a student of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

Children

His three sons were: * Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783–1857), sea painter * Auguste-Siméon Garneray (1785–1824), troubadour style painter * Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray (1787–1858), painter

Selected works

* ''The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier'' - oil on canvas, 113 by 147.6, signed and dated ''aged 72 years'', exhibited at the 1827

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with the caption ''He took advantage of the emotion which caused the young prince to show unaccustomed attention to the misery reigning in this poor man's house, in order to dispose his soul to pity for them and to relieve them for one day'', sold for 95,000 euros by the Hampel auction house in

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on 16 June 2010 as lot 350 *'' Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Milhaud'' (

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) - this was long attributed to Garneray's teacher David, due to a dedication reading ''Au conventionnel Milhaud, son collègue, David-1793'' (''To the Convention-member Milhaud, his colleague David-1793''), but in 1945 Gaston Brière reattributed it to Garneray. A miniature portrait of the same subject, 9 cm in diameter and signed ''Garneray Ventôse, l'An 2 de la République française'' (''Year 2 of the French Republic''),Lot 57 in the ''liquidiation Founés'', sold 27 June 1935, Paris, Galerie Charpentier. confirmed this attribution.

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