François-Élie Vincent (20 June 1708 – 28 March 1790) was a French painter of portrait miniatures.
[1] He was born in Geneva.
He moved to Paris where he painted and taught.
Among his pupils were his son, François-André Vincent, a notable painter and a leader of the neoclassical movement, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, one of the first women to enter the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
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