Louis Ami Arlaud-Jurine (1751-1829

• Was a Swiss artist, painter, miniaturist and engraver.
• Born in Geneva.
• He was the son of François Arlaud, a watchmaker, and Etiennette Penard, and the great-nephew of the miniaturist Jacques-Antoine Arlaud.
• He entered the Public School of Drawing in Geneva in 1762.

• He was then trained by Jean-Etienne Liotard.

• In 1768 he continued his training at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris, with Joseph-Marie Vien.

• He learned the technique of watercolor, pastel, oil painting and enamel painting.

• After a stay in Italy, he married Susanne Jurine in 1778, with whom he had two sons.

• He stayed in London from 1792 to 1801.

• He gave drawing lessons to Alfred Edward Chalon.

• He produced 1554 portraits in more than 50 years of career. 

• He was a member of the Société des arts de Genève from its foundation in 1776 and director of its School of Drawing from 1779 to 1783, then from 1788 to 1790.

• Among his pupils were Firmin Massot, Wolfgang Adam Toepffer, Jacques-Laurent Agasse and Adrienne Pauline Bacle.

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