François Marius Granet (1775 – 1849),
• Was a French painter.
• He was in a free school of art directed by M. Constantin.
• In the year 1797, went to Paris.
• In 1802, he left Paris for Rome, where he remained until 1819.
• In 1819, Louis Philippe decorated Granet, and afterwards named him Chevalier de l'Ordre St Michel, and Conservateur des tableaux de Versailles (1826).
• He became a member of the institute in 1830.
• After 1848 he retired to Aix, immediately lost his wife, and died himself on 21 November 1849.
• He bequeathed the greater part of his fortune to his native town and all his collections to the Museum of Aix en Provence, which was renamed the Musée Granet in 1949, the centenary of his death.
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