François Dumont

François Dumont (born January 7, 1751, Lunéville, France—died August 27, 1831, Paris) was one of the greatest miniature painters.

He studied for a time under Jean Girardet and in 1788 was accepted as an academician and granted an apartment in the Louvre. He painted portraits of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVIII, and Charles X and of almost all the important persons of his day. A younger brother, known as Tony Dumont, was also a miniature painter, a pupil of his brother, a frequent exhibitor, and the recipient of a medal from the French Academy in 1810. Each artist signed with the surname only, and there is some controversy concerning the attribution to each of his own canvases.