Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu (fl.

Floruit

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 c. 1770 - 1815) was a French painter. She was born at La Rochelle

La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988...

 and studied painting under Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter.-Early life:He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a...

. She established herself as a successful artist, specializing in historical and mythological genres and portraiture. She ran a school at Lille, Belgium

Lille, Belgium

Lille is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Gierle, Lille proper, Poederlee and Wechelderzande. On January 1, 2006 Lille had a total population of 15,509. The total area is 59.40 km² which gives a population density of 261 inhabitants...

, in Flanders

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

, until the outbreak of the French Revolution

French Revolution

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.
With the restoration of the Bourbons

Bourbon Restoration

The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon  – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...

 (1814 - 1815) she was granted a state pension. Several of her works survive, including a portrait of Princess Elisabeth Lubomirksa

Elzbieta Lubomirska

Princess Elżbieta Lubomirska was a Polish noblewoman.She married Roman Ignacy Potocki in 1773....

 which remains in the National Museum of Warsaw in Poland.