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LAFRENSEN (Lavreince), NICOLAS, born in Stockholm, Oct., 1737, died there, Dec. 6, 1808. Genre, portrait, and history painter, pupil of his father, a Swedish miniature painter; went to Paris in 1771; made a member of the Stockholm Academy and court-painter in 1773, but returned to Paris in 1774, where he painted many rococo pieces in the style of Lancret, Pater, and Fragonard. In Stockholm, after 1791, he painted portraits, small historical scenes, and rural fêtes.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 280; Wurzbach, Fr. Maler des xviii. Jahrh., 38.

LAGARDE, PIERRE, born in Paris; contemporary. History, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Busson, Humbert, Dubufe, and Mazerolle. Medals: 3d class, 1882; 2d class, 1885. Works: Valley of Rethondes (1878); Susanna at the Bath (1879); Education of a Parrot (1880); The Virgin in the Desert (1881); Annunciation to the Shepherds (1882); Christ and the Woman of Samaria (1883); End of the Day (1884);	Super Flumina Babylonis, The Vigil (1885).

LAGRENÉE, ANTHELME FRANÇOIS, born in Paris in 1775, died there, April 27, 1832. History, genre, and portrait painter, son and pupil of Louis Jean François Lagrenée and pupil of Vincent; served in the army during several campaigns; went to St. Petersburg in 1823, painted portraits for the Emperor Alexander and some excellent pictures of Russian life. On his return to France gave up history for miniature painting.—Bellier, i. 880.

LAGRENÉE, JEAN JACQUES, born in Paris in 1740, died there, Feb. 13, 1821. History painter, pupil of his brother Louis Jean François, with whom he went to Russia in 1760, and to Rome in 1763. In 1775 he became member of the Academy, and professor in 1781. Made many designs for Sèvres porcelain, on the manufacture of which he exercised much influence. Works: Melancholy, Louvre; Winter (1775), Ceiling in Galerie d'Apollon, ib.; A Marriage in Antiquity (1776), Angers Museum; Equestrian Portrait of General Rapp with his Aides-de-Camp, Colmar Museum; St. John preaching in the Desert, Grenoble Museum; Taurea Jubellus stabbing himself before the Proconsul Fulcius (1799), Montpellier Museum; Artemisia at the Tomb of Mausolus, Orléans Museum; Portrait of a General, Strassburg Museum.—Bellier, i. 879; Ch. Blanc, École française.

LAGRENÉE, LOUIS JEAN FRANÇOIS, born in Paris, Dec. 30, 1724, died there, June 19, 1805. History painter, pupil of Carle van Loo; won the grand prix; went to Rome in 1750, and returned in 1753; received into the Academy in 1755, and made professor in 1758. In 1760 the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna called him to St. Petersburg to replace Le Lorrain as director of the Academy and court-painter, but he returned to Paris in 1763, and in 1781 became director of the French Academy in Rome. Napoleon made him chevalier of the L. of Honour and rector of the École des Beaux Arts in 1804. Works: Abduction of Dejanira (1755), Justice and Clemency (1765), Louvre; Alexander visiting the Family of Darius (1785), Mercury committing Bacchus to the Nymphs of Naxos, Angers Museum; Genii of the Arts, Bayeux Museum; Diana at the Bath, Besançon Museum; Two Widows of an Indian Officer (1783), Dijon Museum; Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, Museum, Douai; Resurrection, Assumption, St. Peter's, ib.; Cupid chained by the Graces, Marseilles Museum; Alexander consulting Oracle at Delphi (1789), Montpellier Museum; Visitation of the Virgin,