Jean François de Vallée

Vallée was primarily known in America as painter of portrait miniatures. He came to Philadelphia in 1794, and went to Charleston, South Carolina in 1804 and 1805-1806. Later, after 1810, he went to New Orleans. While there, he painted a miniature of Andrew Jackson. This also may be where he painted the portrait of Dr. Oliver Hetfield Spencer in The Dayton Art Institute collection. (Source: Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Scuptors and Engravers, (New York: James Carr Publishers, 1965), p. 380)