Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin

1790 – 1870

Raymond Monvoisin (also called Quinsac-Monvoisin), French painter and portraitist. He was a student of Pierre Lacour (1745-1814) in Bordeaux, and of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in Paris. Between 1821 and 1825 he stayed in Rome as the winner of the Academy of France in Rome. Back in Paris, the artist is quickly recognized as a talented and promising painter. He receives official and private commissions, and exhibits at the Salons with great success. Nevertheless, in 1842, he decided to leave his studio and his family and sailed from Le Havre to Chile. His work is best known through the works he painted in Chile, about 600 portraits. On his return to France in 1857 Monvoisin was forgotten and his works were not included in the official French art history.

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