DOYEN, GABRIEL FRANCOIS French painter, was born at Paris in 1726. He became in his 12th year a pupil of Vanloo, obtained at 20 the Grand Prix, and in 1748 set out for Rome. Among his greatest works are counted the "Miracle des Ardents," painted for the church of Ste Genevieve at St. Roch (17 73) ; the "Triumph of Thetis," for the chapel of the Invalides; and the "Death of St. Louis," for the chapel of the Military School. In 1776 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Painting. Soon after the beginning of the Revolution he accepted the invitation of Catherine II. and settled at St. Petersburg, where he died on June 5 1806.