Joseph Fratrel

Joseph Fratrel, was a distinguished painter and etcher in France. Born at Épinal in 1730, he was a scholar of Baudouin in Paris. He became court painter for King Stanislaus and the Elector-Palatine Charles Theodore: in the Darmstadt Museum is a portrait of the Electress. He died at Mannheim on May 15, 1783. The following are his best-known works:

• Joseph's Dream; after L. Krahe.
• The Miller's Son.
• St. Nicholas.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "FRATREL, Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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