Biography
Louis Jean François Lagrenée, born in Paris on January 21, 1725 and died in the same city on June 19, 1805, was a French painter. His master was Carle von Loo. He stayed in Rome from September 1750 to July 1754. He then became First Painter to Empress Elisabeth of Russia and returned to France in April 1762. Lagrenée was director of the French Academy in Rome from 1781 to 1787. After his directorship in Rome, he was a professor at the School of Painting and Sculpture, where his pupils included Jean-François Peyron, Danton and Armand-Charles Caraffe.