Anne Vallayer-Coster

Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818) was a French painter, born and died in Paris. She was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1770 as a painter of still life and became one of the leading still-life painters of her time, with Queen Marie-Antoinette among her patrons. She also painted portraits, such as the Portrait of a Violinist (1773) in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.