Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636–1699)

• Was a Franco-Flemish painter.
• He was attached to the Gobelins tapestry workshops and the Beauvais tapestry workshops.
• He was born at Lille.
• He was in Paris by 1650, where he was documented working on the decors of the Hôtel Lambert.
• He was taken up by Charles Le Brun for decorative painting at the Château de Marly.
• He was received at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1665.
• His only appearance at the Paris salon was in 1673, when four paintings of flowers were exhibited by "M. Baptiste".
• In 1690, he left France for England, to work on painting decorations for Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London.
• One of his sons, Antoine Monnoyer, called 'Young Baptiste,' was a painter of flowers.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Studio of Godfrey Kneller, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, After 1697-1699.
• He died in London in 1699.
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