Jean laurent mosnier biography of abraham
Jean-Laurent Mosnier was a French painter and miniaturist, renowned for his detailed and polished portraitures during the Ancien Régime....
Portrait of a Lady
The portrait of Elisabeth Hudtwalcker, born Moller, also known as “Die Schöne Hamburgerin – The Beatiful Lady Of Hamburg”, was painted in in Hamburg by Jean Laurent Mosnier ().
Portrait of the Bergeret de Grandcourt family, by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, circa Born in New York on September 22, to Abraham.
The original is in the collection of Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
Mosnier was born in Paris, France, and received his education at the Parisian Academy St. Luc. In he was appointed Court painter by the Queen of France, Marie-Antoinette, and in he became a member of the Royal Academy.
At the outburst of the French revolution in he fled to London where he stayed for approximately six years (while his former employer, the Queen, was executed). In Mosnier arrived in Hamburg, Germany, however, in he got a new prestigious calling by being appointed Court painter once more, now by the Russian Czarina Elisabeth Alexejewna, and Mosnier moved to St.
Peterburg. Reflecting his geographical movements, his paintings are in the collections of the Louvre. the Erimitage and Hambur