Charles-François Grenier De Lacroix (French, 1700–1782)
Charles-François Grenier De Lacroix (French, 1700–1782)
Charles-François Grenier De Lacroix (French, 1700–1782)
Charles-François Grenier De Lacroix
French, 1700–1782
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Charles Francois Grenier de Lacroix, called Charles Francois Lacroix de Marseille, was a French painter.
Charles François Lacroix of Marseille was a landscape and marine painter, in the style of Claude Joseph Vernet, Jean-Joseph Kapeller (1702-1790) and Henry of Arles. He was a pupil and imitator of Joseph Vernet, and stayed in Rome in 1754. From 1776, he exhibited with great success and spent a good part of his life between Italy and Provence. In 1780, he published an ad to welcome students in his studio in Paris. Jean-Jacques Le Veau and Noël Le Mire engraved some of his paintings.