Jean Urbain Guérin (1760 - 1836)

• Guérin was a French draughtsman and miniature painter.
• Son of the engraver Jean Guérin of Strasbourg, Jean-Urbain Guérin received his first training from his father, then from Charles-Alexis Huin.

• According to Prévost and d'Amat, Guérin also studied with Jean-Baptiste Regnault.

• He was sent to the capital, there he frequented the Alsatians of Paris, in particular Jean-Baptiste Weyler, who advised him to make a career in the art of miniature.

• He continued his apprenticeship with David and then worked with Jean-Baptiste Isabey. 

• He painted Louis XVI and drew the portraits of several deputies of the Third Estate (1785).

• We find Guérin, then a member of the section of the Daughters of Saint-Thomas of the National Guard, in front of the Tuileries protecting the royal family against the sans-culottes on June 20, 1792. 

• During his career, he painted portraits of several generals of the Republic, including the one, often copied, of Kléber, his childhood friend, and Bonaparte.

• He also left a portrait of Mozart.

• He died in Obernai on 29 October 1836. 

• Jean-Urbain Guérin was the brother of Christophe Guérin, painter and engraver, and uncle of the painter Gabriel-Christophe Guérin.

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