rousse, x. 64; Mémoires inédits, ii. 1; Villot, Cat. Louvre.
LAFRENSEN (Lavreince), NICOLAS,
born in Stockholm, Oct., 1737, died there,
Dec. 6, 1808. Genre, portrait, and history
painter, pupil of his father, a Swedish miniature
painter; went to Paris in 1771; made
a member of the Stockholm Academy and
court-painter in 1773, but returned to Paris
in 1774, where he painted many rococo
pieces in the style of Lancret, Pater, and
Fragonard. In Stockholm, after 1791, he
painted portraits, small historical scenes,
and rural fêtes.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i.
280; Wurzbach, Fr. Maler des xviii. Jahrh.,
38.
LAGARDE, PIERRE, born in Paris;
contemporary. History, genre, and landscape
painter, pupil of Busson, Humbert,
Dubufe, and Mazerolle. Medals: 3d class,
1882; 2d class, 1885. Works: Valley of
Rethondes (1878); Susanna at the Bath
(1879); Education of a Parrot (1880); The
Virgin in the Desert (1881); Annunciation
to the Shepherds (1882); Christ and the
Woman of Samaria (1883); End of the Day
(1884); Super Flumina Babylonis, The Vigil
(1885).
LAGRENÉE, ANTHELME FRANÇOIS,
born in Paris in 1775, died there, April 27,
1832. History, genre, and portrait painter,
son and pupil of Louis Jean François Lagrenée
and pupil of Vincent; served in the
army during several campaigns; went to St.
Petersburg in 1823, painted portraits for
the Emperor Alexander and some excellent
pictures of Russian life. On his return to
France gave up history for miniature painting.—Bellier,
i. 880.
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LAGRENÉE, JEAN JACQUES, born in
Paris in 1740, died there, Feb. 13, 1821.
History painter, pupil of his brother Louis
Jean François, with whom he went to Russia
in 1760, and to Rome in 1763. In 1775
he became member of the Academy, and
professor in 1781. Made many designs for
Sèvres porcelain, on the manufacture of
which he exercised much influence. Works:
Melancholy, Louvre; Winter (1775), Ceiling
in Galerie d'Apollon, ib.; A Marriage in Antiquity
(1776), Angers Museum; Equestrian
Portrait of General Rapp with his Aides-de-Camp,
Colmar Museum; St. John preaching
in the Desert, Grenoble Museum; Taurea
Jubellus stabbing
himself before
the Proconsul
Fulcius
(1799), Montpellier
Museum;
Artemisia at the
Tomb of Mausolus,
Orléans Museum;
Portrait of a General, Strassburg
Museum.—Bellier, i. 879; Ch. Blanc, École
française.
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LAGRENÉE, LOUIS JEAN FRANÇOIS,
born in Paris, Dec. 30, 1724, died there,
June 19, 1805. History painter, pupil of
Carle van Loo; won the grand prix; went
to Rome in 1750, and returned in 1753; received
into the Academy in 1755, and made
professor in 1758. In 1760 the Empress
Elizabeth Petrovna called him to St. Petersburg
to replace Le Lorrain as director of the
Academy and court-painter, but he returned
to Paris in 1763, and in 1781 became director
of the French Academy in Rome. Napoleon
made him chevalier of the L. of
Honour and rector of the École des Beaux
Arts in 1804. Works: Abduction of Dejanira
(1755), Justice and Clemency (1765),
Louvre; Alexander visiting the Family of
Darius (1785), Mercury committing Bacchus
to the Nymphs of Naxos, Angers
Museum; Genii of the Arts, Bayeux Museum;
Diana at the Bath, Besançon Museum;
Two Widows of an Indian Officer
(1783), Dijon Museum; Empress
Elizabeth Petrovna, Museum, Douai; Resurrection,
Assumption, St. Peter's, ib.;
Cupid chained by the
Graces, Marseilles
Museum; Alexander
consulting Oracle at Delphi (1789), Montpellier
Museum; Visitation of the Virgin,
