Élisabeth Swagers

Élisabeth Swagers (born Méri) (c. 1775 – 1837) was a French painter and miniaturist.

Born in Paris, Swagers was a pupil of Augustin Pajou, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, and Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. Her husband was the Utrecht-born painter Frans Swagers, sometimes Zwagers; the couple lived in Paris for a time.[1][2] The couple's daughter, Caroline, also became a miniaturist after study with her mother.[3] Élisabeth taught drawing at the Maison d’éducation de la Légion d’honneur at Écouen, and later set up drawing school of her own. Some drawings in chalk and miniatures are recorded, as are a handful of pastels. Swagers died in Paris on 12 June 1837.[1][2]

References
  1. Profile at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
  2. Bellier de La Chavignerie, Émile (1821-1871) Auteur du texte (1882–1885). Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours : architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes. p. 536.
  3. Leo R. Schidlof (1964). The Miniature in Europe in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt.


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