Jean Pierre Frédéric Barrois

Jean-Pierre Frédéric Barrois, son of Albert Pierre Barrois, a Cashier at the St Jacques barrier (caissier à la barrière St Jacques), and Anne Rose Duché, received his artistic training from the miniaturist Jean-François Gérard Fontallard and the painter Louis Hersent. Between 1808 and 1841, he exhibited some of his works at the Paris Salon, and in 1819 he won a second-class medal. In 1825, he married Louise Julienne Elisabeth Dessain(t) in Paris. By 1831 at the latest, he was living in Meaux, where he became a painter and drawing teacher at the Société d’agriculture, sciences et arts. He now increasingly painted portraits in oil, genre and landscape paintings, as well as religious subjects. Barrois died on 28 August 1880, aged 94.

Jean-Pierre Frédéric Barrois is not to be confused with Jacques-Antoine Barrois (1765–1851), who was born a generation earlier and also worked as a miniaturist.