Michel Garnier (1753 - † 1819)

• Was a French painter and scientific illustrator.
• Michel Garnier was born January 21, 1753 in Saint-Cloud.
• His work includes genre scenes, portraits and depictions of tropical crops.
• He was the eldest son of Michel Garnier.
• According to the catalogs of the salons of 1796 and 1799, he was a student of the director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre.
• From 1779–1781 he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Saint-Louis.
• His earliest known work dates from 1781.
• It is a portrait of the Duke of Chartres showing him as the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France.
• In 1784 Garnier signed as “Painter of His Highness Highness the Duke of Chartres”.
• In 1785/86 he painted female portraits in gouache, but then specialized in genre scenes of small and medium formats.

• Michel Garnier died in Versailles.

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