Claude Lefèbvre (1632–1675)

• Was a French painter and engraver.
• Lefèbvre was born at Fontainebleau, the son of the painter Jean Lefèbvre.

• He became a member of the workshop of Claude d'Hoey (1585–1660) at Fontainebleau. 

• In 1654 he studied with Eustache Le Sueur in Paris, and after Le Sueur's death in 1655, with Charles Le Brun.

• Lefèbvre soon established himself as a leading portrait artist.

• In 1663, at the age of thirty, he was received as a member of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture in anticipation of his portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

• He was an assistant professor at the Académie beginning in 1664.

• Among his students were François de Troy and Jean Cotelle, le jeune.

• At the peak of his career, at the Salon of 1673, he presented ten pictures, of which nine were portraits.

• Lefèbvre was also an engraver.

• His engravings include a Self-portrait and a portrait of Alexandre Boudan.

• Claude Lefèbvre died in Paris.

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