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An 18th-century painter of melodramatic genre, morality lessons, female figures and portraits whose subjects included Mozart and
Benjamin Franklin, Jean-Baptiste Greuze was born in the Burgundy region
of France. He spent most of his career in Paris, where he was mentored
by a portrait artist from Lyon named Grandon (Grondom). This
artist was an advocate for the young Greuze, whose father had
discouraged him from following his art talents. In Paris, Greuze
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