# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-defrance
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:27:44.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-defrance"
name: "Léonard Defrance"
slug: "leonard-defrance"
description: "Léonard Defrance, born at Liège in 1735, was a scholar of J. B. Coclers. He painted historical pieces of large and small dimensions, also landscapes, game, fruit, flowers, and architecture. He was the first professor of design at the Academy of Liège, established by the Prince Velbruck, and afterwards filled the same post in the École Centrale of the department of Ourthe. He died at Liège in 1805."
tagline: "Walloon painter (1735-1805)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/L%C3%A9onard_Defrance%2C_Autoportrait_au_chevalet_(1791)%2C_Grand_Curtius%2C_Li%C3%A8ge2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1735-11-05"
deathDate: "1805-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.01
  momentum:             15.74731182795699
  historical:           6.742873333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8E%B1%E6%98%82%E7%BA%B3%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%BE%B7%E5%BC%97%E6%9C%97%E6%96%AF"
    title: "莱昂纳尔·德弗朗斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard_Defrance"
    title: "Léonard Defrance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard_Defrance"
    title: "Léonard Defrance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard_Defrance"
    title: "Léonard Defrance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard_Defrance"
    title: "Léonard Defrance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard_Defrance"
    title: "Léonard Defrance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Дефранс, Леонар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3271490"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump