Artist

Jean-François Pierre Peyron

1744–1814 · born in Aix-en-Provence · died in Paris

Jean-François Pierre Peyron was a French painter born in Aix-en-Provence in 1744. He won the Prix de Rome, worked in Rome and became an important early Neoclassical history painter and later a director of the Gobelins tapestry works. He died in Paris in 1814.