Jacques-Antoine Vallin

circa 1760–1831, Paris

The painter and draughtsman, Jacques-Antoine Vallin, a protégé of the history painter Gabriel Doyen, began his training at the Académie Royale in Paris in 1779 when the Ancien régime was still in power. Among his teachers were Antoine François Callet and Antoine Renou. Vallin was regularly represented at the Paris Salon, to whose exhibitions he submitted landscapes and seascapes in the style of Vernet and Bidauld as well as mythological scenes and portraits in the years from 1791 to 1827.