DUMONT, FRANCOIS (1751-1831), French miniature painter, was born at Luneville (Meurthe) , studied for a time under Jean Girardet, and in 1788 was accepted as an academician and granted an apartment in the Louvre. He married the daughter of Antoine Vestier, the miniature painter, and had two sons, Aristide and Bias, both of whom became painters. He was one of the three greatest miniature painters of France, painting portraits of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, Louis XVIII. and Charles X., and of almost all the important persons of his day. His own por trait was engraved both by Audouin and by Tardieu. He spent the greater part of his life in Paris, and there he died. A younger brother, known as Tony Dumont, was also a miniature painter, a pupil of his brother, a frequent exhibitor and the recipient of a medal from the Academy in 181o. Each artist signed with the sur name only, and there is some controversy concerning the attribu tion to each of his own canvases. Many of Dumont's finest paintings came into the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, but others are in the Louvre, presented by the heir of Bias Dumont.