Marie-Françoise Sprote
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Marie-Françoise Sprote, later Marie Leschevin de Précourt, (18 May 1746 – 10 December 1818) was a French painter.
Born in Paris, Sprote was the granddaughter of Dominique Sprote, a tailor who rose to become a conseiller du roi, merchant and jeweler. Her father, Louis-Dominique Sprote, served as a conseiller de l’élection de Paris beginning in 1775.[1] He lived in the rue Saint-Honoré, where his daughter was born.[1]
She exhibited pastels and miniature paintings at the place Dauphine in 1767.[1] More miniatures are mentioned again in a newspaper notice of the following year; this appears to have marked the end of her artistic career.
In 1768, in Versailles, Sprote married Augustin Leschevin de Précourt,[1] who held various royal offices throughout his career, and who was awarded a pension of 2400 livres in 1788 by Louis XVI; his wife received a pension of 600 livres at the same time.[1]
The couple had three sons, the eldest and only surviving of whom, Philippe-Xavier, would go on to become a chemist of note.[1] He was imprisoned for five months during the French Revolution before his mother won his release.[1] Her husband, meanwhile, was executed in 1793.[1]
Sprote died in Paris.
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