LAGRENÉE, Jean-Jacques - b. 1739 Paris, d. 1821 Paris - WGA

LAGRENÉE, Jean-Jacques

(b. 1739 Paris, d. 1821 Paris)

French painter, known as Jean-Jacques Lagrenée the Younger. He was a history painter and engraver, the pupil of his elder brother Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée. With his brother he stayed in Russia (1760-62), then at the Académie de Rome (1763-68). Later he became artistic director of the Manufacture de Sèvres.

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