Additionally, Vigée Le Brun remarked that she copied drawings and sculptures at the home of the academician Gabriel Briard (1725–1777). Gabriel François Doyen (1726–1806) was a respected history painter and academician influenced by Rubens, but of Pierre Davesne, beyond showing portraits in the guild exhibitions of 17, nothing else is known. What was her training? She states that in her father’s home she met Doyen and Davesne, and that Davesne taught her to prepare a palette. She was obliged to apply for membership and, when admitted, became eligible to exhibit in their Salon. In 1774, her studio was closed because she was accepting paying clients without contributing to the guild. Jeanne married Jacques François Le Sèvre, a jeweler, but even so Mademoiselle Vigée was expected to contribute to the support of her family and became a professional artist in her teens. His death in 1767 was a great sadness and much to her professional disadvantage. At eleven, when she returned home, her father recognized her natural ability and gave her access to his studio. Élisabeth Louise spent her early childhood in the country and then attended a residential convent school. Her father, Louis Vigée, was a pastelist and member of the artists’ guild, the Académie de Saint-Luc, while her mother, Jeanne Maissin, was a hairdresser. Élisabeth Louise Vigée was born in Paris in 1755.
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