Jean Louis Prévost
French, 1760-1810
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Jean Louis Prévost was a French still-life painter best known for his depictions of flower arrangements in both oil and watercolor. Though Prévost was not interested in creating his art solely for scientific purposes, his works were so precise and demonstrative of various plant species they have often been reproduced as color plates for botanical books, both during his lifetime and after. Born circa 1760 in Nointel, France, Prévost was associated with the botanical painter Gérard van Spaendonck and went on to exhibit with both the Academie Royale and the Academy of Saint-Luc. Today, the artist’s work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Prévost died circa 1810 in France.