André-Jean Lebrun (1737-1811) was a French sculptor.
André-Jean Lebrun was born in 1737 in Paris born. He studied at Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. [1] Lebrun won the grand prize of the in 1756. Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. [2] He collaborated with the sculptor Pierre-François Berruer (1733-1797) and won a scholarship to the Villa Medici in Rome. [3] In Rome he made a number of statues for the Church of San Carlo al Corso. [1] There was a statue of Judith. He also made a bust of paus Clemens XIII (1768). [4] He became a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc and the Académie de Marseille. [2]
Lebrun was appointed on the recommendation of Madame Geoffrin invited to Poland come. [4] and was appointed chief sculptor to King Stanisław August Poniatowski. [5] He also worked in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he made a bust of Empress Maria Fyodorovna. [4] In 1804 he became professor of sculpture at the. Vilnius University. [4]
He died in 1811 in Vilnius.
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