Biographies

His career began brilliantly under the Restoration, during which time he served in Spain in 1824 and in Egypt in 1828, and in 1831 he was appointed secretary of legation in Mexico. Chargé d'affaires in Bogota in 1838, he was to intervene in a number of delicate situations regarding Latin America, most notably in La […]

The portrait painter of the great and the good of Europe, Isabey was born son of a merchant in Nancy in 1767. He studied painting in Nancy with two local Lorraine artists: Girardet (architecture and decoration) and Claudot (landscape). At the age of 19, in 1786, he went up to Paris, with a letter of […]