Nicolas-Guy Brenet
French painter
Nicolas-Guy Brenet was a French history painter.
Brenet was born and died in Paris. He studied in the atelier of François Boucher, but abandoned his master's rococo manner in the 1760s, to paint in a conscious revival of the academic classicism of... Wikipedia
Born: July 1, 1728, Paris, France
Died: February 21, 1792 (age 63 years), Paris, France
On view: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Children: Nicolas-Guy-Antoine Brenet
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