Louis-Etienne Advinent

Louis-Etienne Advinent, whose father ran a button factory in Lyon, exhibited some of his oil paintings in Lille as early as 1785. Later, however, he switched to painting miniatures. He married the daughter of the painter and engraver Jacques Gamelin, who created a portrait print of Advinent in 1791. By 1818 he had moved to Marseille, and from here he sent some of his works to the Salons in Aix-en-Provence and Paris (1818/19).