French painter who created a portrait of Franklin for Mme Helvétius that Sellers described as "beguilingly personal" (p. 132). The portrait is now at the American Philosophical Society.

Descendant of a line of Dutch painters who settled in France at the end of the seventeenth century, he was born in Nice. He followed the family trade and won the Prix de Rome in 1745 and joined the Académie Royale de Peintres et Sculpteurs in 1747. He was a court painter under Louis XV, but went out of favor later in the century.