# AUGUSTIN, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1759–1832 - Profession: miniaturist - School: French ## Biography French painter. After receiving instruction in art from Jean Girardet \(1709–78\) and Jean-Baptiste-Charles Claudot \(1733–1805\), he went to Paris in 1781, where he won recognition as a miniature painter. The miniatures he painted in the 1790s, for example his portrait of Mme Vanhée, née Dewinck \(1792; Paris, Louvre\), are among his most animated works; often portraying figures in a landscape setting, they develop the exuberant style of Niclas Lafrensen and Peter Adolf Hall. He also admired the work of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, whose Bacchante \(Waddesdon Manor, Bucks, NT\) in his own collection he copied in miniature \(London, Wallace\) and in enamel \(Paris, Louvre\). ## Related artworks - [A Bacchante]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman in Lilac Dress]() - [Portrait of the Sculptor Callamard]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()