Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine

He declined to follow his father's precedent in becoming a notary, and instead began study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen.

He was attracted to Parisian theater and music, and early in his career often portrayed actors, singers, and musicians, using pastels and chalk.

[1] Lemoine invented a perspective easel for use in landscape painting, and another device to help create likenesses in portraiture.

[2] Lemoine's wife died in 1794, and he returned to Rouen, where he was appointed professor of drawing at the École de Marine in 1799.

[4] Unless otherwise noted, information from Marjorie E. Wieseman, Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum (Yale University Press, 2006), p. 225 online.