Georges Michel (1763–1843)

• Was was a French landscape painter.
• Michel was born in Paris.
• His father was an employee at Les Halles, a large marketplace in the central part of the city.
• Michel's first patron, at a very early age, was a certain Monsieur de Chalue.
• His first painting teacher was Leduc, a history painter, and later Michel studied under Nicolas-Antoine Taunay.
• He specialized in Dutch paintings and was helped in business by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun's husband. 
• His works are found in museums around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Vanderbilt University Gallery, Strasbourg Musée des Beaux-Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others.
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