Image: Marie-Louise O ' Murphy ( 1737-1818 ) painted by Francois Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ). jpg | François Boucher, Marie-Louise O ' Murphy, 1752

Among the portraits he has painted are those of Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and French President François Mitterrand.

He painted the famous explorer Alexander von Humboldt and several other noted patrons such as Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and François André Michaux.

William Blundell ( born 1947 ) is an Australian painter and art forger who painted forgeries for Sydney art dealer Germaine Marie François Toussaint Curvers.

* the 60-gun frigate Belle Poule ( 1828 – 1888 ), famous for bringing back the remains of Napoléon from Saint Helena to France in 1840 ; she was under command of François d ' Orléans, prince of Joinville, and was painted black for the mission

The Fonthill vase, painted by Barthélemy Remy, valet of François Roger de Gaignières, 1713.

* November 21 – François de Troy, French portrait artist

Francis of Lorraine, duke of Guise. Pencil portrait by François Clouet.

Several French paintings entered the collection as part of the 260 paintings and miniatures ( not all the works were French, for example Carlo Crivelli's Virgin and Child ) that formed part of the Jones bequest of 1882 and as such are displayed in the galleries of continental art 1600-1800, including the portrait of François, Duc d ' Alençon by François Clouet, Gaspard Dughet and works by François Boucher including his portrait of Madame de Pompadour dated 1758, Jean François de Troy, Jean-Baptiste Pater and their contemporaries.

Dugommier, portrait by François Bouchot

Pradier's importance as an artist in his day is demonstrated by the fact that his portrait is included in François Joseph Heim's painting Charles X Distributing Prizes to Artists as the Salon of 1824, now in the Louvre Museum, Paris.

Madame de Pompadour, portrait by François Boucher

Numerous other artisans, sculptors and portrait painters were employed, among them the court artist Jean-Marc Nattier, in the 1750s François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and François-Hubert Drouais.

Retz and François de La Rochefoucauld, the greatest of the Frondeurs in literary genius, were personal and political enemies, and each left a portrait of the other.

Eugène François Vidocq – portrait by Achille Devéria

Rudolph Ackermann, portrait by François Nicholas Mouchet | François Mouchet between 1810-1814.

* December 22 – François Devosge, French portrait painter ( born 1732 )

His portrait bust was sculpted by François Duquesnoy " Il Fiammingo ", a Franco-Flemish sculptor working in Rome

Jacques MacDonald, portrait by François Gerard ( 1770-1837 ).

Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau ( 1798 engraving after a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Isabey.

In 1800 Jacques-Louis David began his portrait of her, but left it unfinished on learning François Gérard had been commissioned to paint a portrait before he had.

Painters like Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, François Boucher, Nicholas Poussin made use of her myth as a major theme.

In her early thirties she was responsible for encouraging the young Molière, and when she died she left money for the son of her accountant, a nine-year old named François Marie Arouet, later to become known as Voltaire, so he could buy books.

< div class =" center "> Mary, Queen of Scots by an unknown artist after François Clouet ( c. 1559 ) London, Victoria and Albert Museum </ div > The Queen is shown wearing her rope of famous black pearls.

In 1981, Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on record " Dream in Blue ", written by Delanoë.

< div align =" center "> Portrait of Marie-Jeanne Buzeau ( 1716-1796 ) by Alexander Roslin ( exhibited at the: en: Salon ( Paris ) | Salon of 1761 ).< BR /> Munich, Nymphenburg Palace </ div > In 1733 François Boucher married her and had three children.

Her most famous performance there was her travesty performance as the Florentine minstrel in François Coppé's Le Passant ( January 1869 ).

In fact, HMS Sandwich never fought at Trafalgar and her depiction is a mistake by Auguste Étienne François Mayer | Auguste Mayer, the painter.

She announced her resignation in May 2012 after being appointed to the new cabinet appointed by President François Hollande.

At her death, she left him with three young children to take care of ; to take up the burden, he remarried in August of that year to François Marguerite Olympe Braconnier, a woman ten years younger than himself.

Aimée was an accomplished pianist, while her brother François Delsarte was a distinguished singer and teacher who performed at the courts of both Louis Philippe and Napoleon III.

Diane de Poitiers, another favorite of the previous king, was also asked to not appear at the court ; her protege, Jean Bertrand, had to surrender his title, Keeper of the Seals of France, to the chancellor François Olivier that Diane removed from this function a few years earlier.

His first marriage of ten years to Natalie Sullivan ended in divorce when he returned from the war to find her, as he later put it in a television interview, " not alone "; she was in fact with French president Charles de Gaulle's chef de cabinet, François Coulet, with whom she was to spend the rest of her life.

The François Truffaut film Day for Night is about the making of a fictitious movie called Meet Pamela ( Je vous présente Pamela ) and shows the interactions of the actors as they are making this movie about a woman who falls for her husband's father.

), begins with the sight of Venus crossing the water, as in François Boucher ' sTriumph of Venus, but when she disembarks, Bellman quickly transforms her into a lustful Ulla Winblad.

* Shadow in the Sun-Elizabeth meets her most eligible suitor yet: François, Duke of Anjou.

Despite the Puritans ' rousing opposition in the country ( which her zealously anti-catholic councillor Sir Francis Walsingham secretly approves of ), Elizabeth seems taken with the witty and flower-tongued François.

The following year, she landed her first major role in François Truffaut's The Story of Adèle H. Critics enthused over her performance, with Pauline Kael calling her acting talents " Prodigious ".

The film, directed by François Truffaut, brought Ardant her first César Award nomination for best actress in 1982 and in 1984 she was nominated again for Vivement dimanche !.

She earned respect from European critics for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night ( 1973 ), starred in Le Magnifique ( 1973 ) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and The Sunday Woman ( 1975 ) with Marcello Mastroianni.

On 27 May 2008, Faithfull released the following blog posting on her MySpace page, with the headline " Tour Dates Cancelled " and credited to FR Management – the company operated by her boyfriend / manager François Ravard: " Due to general mental, physical and nervous exhaustion doctors have ordered Marianne Faithfull to immediately cease all work activities and rehabilitate.