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Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Memoirs of a Painter Catherine Abbey Hodges unvarnished account tells of theAt the age of 15, Elisabeth Vig e Lebrun was earning enough money from her portrait painting to support herself, her widowed mother and her younger brother. She became Marie Antoinette s favorite painter; European aristocrats, actors and writers were also her patrons; and she was elected a member of the art academies in 10 cities. Trained by her father, the minor portraitist Louis Vig e, she joined Paris s Academy of Saint Luke at 19. Two years later