François de Troy (1645 – 1730)

• Was a French painter and engraver.
• He became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.
• One of a family of artists, Troy was born in Toulouse.
• He was the son of Antoine Troy, a painter in that city, and Astrugue Bordes.
• François Troy and was the brother of the painter Jean de Troy.
• Troy was taught the basic skills of painting by his father, and perhaps also by the more worldly Antoine Durand.
• François de Troy is not to be confused with his son, the portrait painter Jean-François de Troy, who studied under him.
• Among his engravings is one of the funeral in 1683 of Maria Theresa of Austria, the wife of King Louis XIV.
• Apart from his son, Jean-François, Troy's other students included André Bouys and John Closterman.
• He died in Paris at the age of eighty-five.
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