Lucienne de Saint-Mart (8 October 1866 in

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- 28 March 1953 in Laguna Beach, California) was a French painter who for eight years was a court painter for Czar

Nicholas II Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...

of Russia.

Biography

Lucienne de Saint-Mart was the daughter of French writer

Louis Lemercier de Neuville Louis Lemercier de Neuville or La Haudussière, real name Louis Lemercier, (2 July 1830 – 1918) was a French puppeteer, journalist, columnist, playwright and storyteller. He created the French ''Théâtre de Pupazzi''. Biography Louis was the ...

. She was born in

, France in 1866 and trained as a painter from 1880.Lucienne de Saint-Mart
AskArt.com. Retrieved 2013-06-28. Between 1910 and 1918, she was a portrait painter at the court of

in Russia, where she painted miniatures of the tsar's children and a portrait of the

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. She left Russia during the 1917 revolution. Saint-Mart later lived in the United States, in New York City and New Orleans, before settling in California in 1934Lucienne de Saint-Mart
'' Toledo Blade'', March 30, 1953, page 12.

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The life and art of Lucienne de Saint-Mart
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint-Mart People from Laval, Mayenne 1866 births 1953 deaths 20th-century French painters French portrait painters