Alexis Grimou

Place: Argenteuil

Born: 1678

Death: 1733

Biography:

Alexis Grimou was a French painter.
Alexis Grimou was never an apprentice in a studio. His father had been a Swiss guard at Versailles. He trained himself by copying works of Van Dyck and Rembrandt. He painted mainly spirited portraits or portrait scenes, such as women singing and playing musical instruments. He was admitted to the Academy of Paris in 1705, but resigned complaining about the mediocrity of his peers. He then joined the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris, where he was admitted in 1709.
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