Antoine Vestier

{{Short description|French painter (1740–1824)}}

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Antoine Vestier ({{IPA|fr|ɑ̃twan vɛstje}}; 1740 – 24 December 1824){{cite book|title=Carnegie Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VbYaAQAAMAAJ|year=1944|publisher=The Institute|page=35}} was a French miniaturist and painter of portraits, born at Avallon in Burgundy, who trained in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Pierre. He showed his work at the Salon de la Correspondance, Paris, before being admitted (agréé) to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1785, when a portrait of the painter Gabriel François Doyen, was his morceau de réception.

Among his sitters was the royal cabinet-maker, Jean Henri Riesener (1786, Musée de Versailles).

Further portraits include

• The Chevalier de Latude, 1789 (Paris, musée Carnavalet)
• Nicolas-Guy Brenet, painter, 1786 (Paris, musée du Louvre)
• Jean Thurel, fusilier, 1788; this aged veteran wears three medals, witness to his seventy-two years of service (Tours, musée des Beaux-Arts)
• A Chevalier of Malta holding the portrait of the Bailli de Hautefeuille, commander of the Order, 1788 (Dijon, musée des beaux-arts).
• François-Joseph Gossec, unknown date.

Vestier was the father of portraitist Marie-Nicole Vestier, wife of miniaturist François Dumont.[http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/VESTIERn.pdf Profile of Marie-Nicole Vestier] at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.