EUSTACHE LE SUEUR. — Painter, born in Paris on 18 Nov. 1617 (or 1616), died there on 30 Apr. 1655, son of the wood sculptor Chathelin L., of Picard origin. He studied painting in Paris under Simon Vouet, alongside Le Brun and Mignard, who later undertook the traditional educational journey to Italy.
When Vouet in 1637 received the commission to prepare the cartoons for *The Dream of Poliphilus* for the Gobelins tapestry works, he entrusted the task to his pupil, thus presenting him publicly. Le Sueur also provided illustrations for books and decorated the Hôtel Lambert of Thorigny with mythological scenes, some of which are preserved in the Louvre, as are the paintings he executed for Louis XIV and Anne of Austria. In 1645 he was commissioned to paint 22 large canvases for the Paris Charterhouse depicting episodes from the life of St Bruno; for the Gobelins he copied the so-called Raphael Bible and was one of the founders of the Royal Academy of Painting.