Louis-Léopold BOILLY
France

(1761 - 1845)
Louis-Léopold Boilly (French born 5 July 1761 died 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work spanned the eras of monarchical France, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy.