Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1796
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
John Lincklaen is a 1796 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a portrait of John Lincklaen. He's dressed in formal clothes and looks serious. The artist used a lot of detail to make the portrait look realistic. The portrait is interesting because it shows the artist's skill in making people look real. The artist, Saint-Mémin, was good at drawing faces and clothes. He used a technique that made the picture look detailed and realistic. You can learn more about this technique by looking into engraving, which is a method of making prints from metal plates.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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