Guillaume Voiriot (1713–1799)

• Was a French portrait painter.
• Voiriot was born in Paris into a family originally from Lorraine.
• His father was a sculptor.
• He travelled to Italy at his own expense from 1746 to 1749, studying at the French Academy in Rome.
• On his return he initially joined the Académie de Saint-Luc as a pastellist.
•  In 1759 was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture as a painter in oils.
• From then until 1771, he regularly exhibited portraits in the Paris Salons.
• Voiriot was a friend of the architect Michel-Barthélemy Hazon.
• From 1770, he was an associate of the Academy of Arts in Rouen.
• After 1771, he exhibited less often, concentrating on administrative tasks.
• He died in Paris.
• The catalogue assembled by Catherine Voiriot lists 67 surviving works, 8 works known from engravings.
• Some of the lost works were early copies after Georges de La Tour.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Guillaume Voiriot, Self-portrait, 1749.
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