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Rome, returning after four years' careful study, and in 1788 was accepted as an Academician and granted an apartment in the Louvre. He married the daughter of See also:

ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine Vestier, the miniature painter, and had two sons, Aristide and See also:

Bias, both of whom became painters. He was one of the three greatest miniature painters of See also:

France, See also:

PAINTING

painting portraits of See also:

Louis XVI. and See also:

MARIE

Marie Antoinette, Louis XVIII. and See also:

Charles X., and of almost all the important persons of his See also:

day. His own portrait was engraved both by See also:

AUDOUIN, JEAN VICTOR (1797-1841)

Audouin and by Tardieu. He resided the greater See also:

PART

part of his See also:

LIFE

life in See also:

Paris, and there he died. A younger See also:

BROTHER

brother, known as Tony Dumont, was also a miniature painter, a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of his brother, a frequent exhibitor and the recipient of a See also:

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal from the See also:

Academy in 181o. Each artist signed with the surname only, and there is some controversy concerning the attribution to each artist of his own See also:

WORK

work. Tony was an See also:

EXPERT (Lat. expertus, from experiri, to try)

expert violinist and delighted in painting portraits of persons who were playing upon the See also:

VIOLIN

violin. Many of Dumont's finest paintings came into the collection of Mr J. Pierpont See also:

Morgan, but others are in the Louvre, presented by the See also:

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir of Bias Dumont.

The work of both painters is distinguished by breadth, precision and a charming See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of colouring, and the unfinished See also:

WORKS

works of the See also:

elder brother are amongst some of the most beautiful miniatures ever produced. See The See also:

HISTORY

History of Portrait Miniatures, by G. C. See also:

Williamson (See also:

LONDON

London, 1904) ; also the privately printed See also:

CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures of Mr J. Pierpont Morgan, vol. iv. (G. C.

End of Article: DUMONT, FRANCOIS (1751-1831)

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