Guillaume Guillon-Lethière

Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (10 January 1760 – 22 April 1832) was a French neoclassical painter. Born free in Guadeloupe in 1760 to a French colonial official named Pierre Guillon and a "mulatto" mother,[2] Lethière has been often written about in the context of French colonial history and the French Revolution. At 14 years old, his father took him from Guadeloupe to Met...