Jean-Baptiste Belin

Belin decided to renounce his Protestant faith and converted to Catholicism in order to continue his work at the court of Louis XIV.

Belin was the pupil of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, whose daughter he married, and whom he succeeded as a flower painter at the Gobelins manufactory.

Belin painted floral murals in several of the royal chateaus, including Fontainebleau and Versailles, where he worked on the Escalier de la Reine (Queen's Staircase), since destroyed.

He also collaborated with other painters, providing the floral borders in portrait paintings and tapestry cartoons for Gobelins manufactory from 1687.

One of his sons was named Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay II (1688–1730) and painted in a similar style.