Nicolas Antoine Taunay (1755 - 1830): Bridging Neoclassicism and Brazilian Landscape Nicolas Antoine Taunay, born Feb. 10, 1755, in Paris, France—died March 20, 1830, Paris—was a French painter and member of the French artistic mission to Brazil in 1816. The son of a painter for the porcelain factory at Sèvres, Taunay began studying painting at age 13. His teachers included Francesco Casanova, whose landscape and history paintings ins…