Antoine Vestier
Visual Artist
1740 – 1824
Who was Antoine Vestier?
Antoine Vestier was a French miniaturist and painter of portraits, born at Avallon in Burgundy, who trained in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Pierre. He showed his work at the Salon de la Correspondance, Paris, before being admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1785, when a portrait of the painter Gabriel François Doyen, was his morceau de réception.
Among his sitters was the royal cabinet-maker, Jean Henri Riesener.
Further portraits include
The Chevalier de Latude, 1789
Nicolas-Guy Brenet, painter, 1786
Jean Thurel, fusilier, 1788; this aged veteran wears three medals, witness to his seventy-two years of service
A Chevalier of Malta holding the portrait of the Bailli de Hautefeuille, commander of the Order, 1788.
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