An Introduction to Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun | National Gallery

Painting royalty, fleeing revolution. At just 15-years-old, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was painting the aristocracy. In her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie Antoinette, And by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution.

Learn more about this 18th-century portrait painter with curator Francesca Whitlum-Cooper.

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