Jean-Augustin Franquelin

Females dancing in the Hawaiian Islands, 1822, hand-coloured lithograph after Louis Choris

Jean-Augustin Franquelin (1798, in Paris – 1839, in Paris), was instructed by Regnault, and became known through his works, representing scenes in public life, conversation-pieces, &c., which have often been copied. The painting of The Occupation of Brissac, by this artist, is at Versailles.

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This article incorporates text from the article "FRANQUELIN, Jean Augustin" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.