Robert Lefèvre

Robert Lefèvre, a prominent French portraitist, captured the likenesses of emperors, empresses, and popes, becoming First Painter to the King.

ABOUT

Born in Bayeux in 1755, Robert Lefèvre initially found himself apprenticed to a procureur, but his artistic calling was too strong to ignore. He abandoned his legal studies and walked from Caen to Paris, determined to pursue painting. There, he became a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, a significant figure in French Neoclassicism, where he also befriended fellow artist Charles Paul Landon. This early training heavily influenced Lefèvre's style, which was reminiscent of the…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Cupid sharpening his arrows 1798 Portrait of Elisabeth Demidova 1800 · Hermitage Museum Citizen Guérin 1801 · Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans Portrait of the painter Jan Frans van Dael 1804 · Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Portrait of Count Andrey Bezborodko 1804 · Hermitage Museum Portrait of Carle Vernet 1804 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Jean-Baptiste RegnaultNeoclassicism Jacques-Louis DavidNeoclassicism