Background
He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien.
He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien.
From 1771 to 1775 he studied at the Académie de France.
François-André Vincent was a pupil of École Royale des Éleves Protégéson and also inspired by the Classical antiquity and the Italian renaissance masters like Raphael. In 1790, Vincent was appointed master of drawings to Louis XVI of France, and in 1792 he became a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris. He was influenced by the art of classical antiquity, by the masters of the Italian High Renaissance, especially Raphael, and among his contemporaries, Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Towards the end of his life he painted less due to ill health, but he continued to receive official honours.
He travelled to Rome, where he won the Prix de Rome in 1768, and was when he was installed at the Palais Mancini, Rome, where he painted numerous portraits, inspired by Jean-Honoré Fragonard"s style, wo also was visiting Rome and Naples in the same time. He was one of the founder members of the Académie des beaux-arts — part of the Institut de France and the successor to the Académie royale — in 1795.
Académie des Beaux-Arts.
