Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805) was born in Tournus, sixth son of a master tiler. Legend has it that the young Greuze convinced his father of his natural aptitude for painting when he showed him a pen-and-ink drawing of Saint James, which his father mistook for an engraving. Greuze was sent to Lyon to study with the commercially successful portrait painter Charles Grand...