* Antoine Berjon (17 May 1754, St. Pierre de Vaise - 24 October 1843, Lyon), French painter and designer, among the most important flower painters of early nineteenth-century France. Born in a commune of Lyon, the son of a butcher, he first studied drawing with the local sculptor Antoine-Michel Perrache. Little is known of his early life, though it is thought that he may have studied medicine or for a religious vocation. But he is known to have worked as a designer of textiles in Lyon's...
