Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (March 12th, 1770 Dijon Dijon June 23rd, 1852) is a French painter and portraitist.

Officer with the French Guards, it leaves France with the Revolution and by Switzerland joined Canada in 1793. Associated with New York with the French artist Thomas Bluget de Valdenuit (1763-1846), it introduces the portrait with the Physionotrace with the the United States. It returns to France in 1814 after having left several hundreds of portraits to the physionotrace of which George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the Indian chief Sheheke and his wife Yellow Corn.

The Museum of Dijon has some works.

References

a descendant of an big family of Burgundian members of Parliament: Charles-Balthazar-Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, artist, archeologist, conservative of the Museum of Dijon - Museum of Dijon 1965
Ellen G. Miles: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profiles Portrait in America National Portrait Gallery

External bond

portrait of Sheheke

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