Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty

[1] Four of his brothers became artists: Honoré-Louis, Jean-Fabien, Édouard and Arnauld-Éloi [fr].

As a Knight in the Ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Latran [fr], he was often referred to as "Le Chevalier Dagoty".

Never popular within the court, his career appeared to receive a boost when Queen Marie Antoinette commissioned a portrait as a gift for her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa.

But, when it was presented in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, it was harshly mocked because it was too artificial, at a time when a more natural look was in style.

Two of his portrait series, with mezzotints created by his father, were begun in the 1770s, but never completed: Gallery of famous men and women who have appeared in France and The French Monarchy.