François Marius Granet

France · 1775–1849

François Marius Granet was a French painter, primarily of architectural subjects. == Biography == François Marius Granet was born on 17 December 1775 in Aix-en-Provence; his father was a small builder. As a boy, his strong desires led his parents to place him, after some preliminary teaching from a passing Italian artist, in a free school of art directed by Jean-Antoine Constantin, a landscape painter of some reputation. In 1793, Granet followed the volunteers of Aix to the siege of Toulon, where he obtained employment as a decorator in the arsenal. As a young man in Aix, he met the young comte de Forbin, and upon his invitation Granet, in the year 1797, went to Paris.

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