Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (ca.1420–1481)

• Was a French painter and miniaturist.
• A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature.
• He was born in Tours.
• He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance.
• During the 1450s he began working at the French court.
• He counted kings Charles VII and his successor Louis XI among his many patrons. 
• The Louvre has his oil portraits of Charles VII, of Count Wilczek, and of Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins.
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