Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin was a French miniature painter. He was born in Saint-Dié in 1759 and died in Paris in 1832.
He first had some lessons from Jean-Baptiste Claudot and Jean Girardet in Nancy. After a few months in Dijon in 1780 he arrived in Paris in 1781 where he soon earned fame.
During the French Revolution days he travelled to Brittany, Switzerland and Germany.
Back in Paris in 1800 he married one of his pupils, Pauline Ducruet. She was 22 years younger than him and herself a painter in a similar style.
In 1806 Jacques Augustin was appointed official painter to the court. Later on (1814) he became painter to the king.
He died of cholera in Paris in 1832 and was buried at Père Lachaise cemetery. - wikipedia
