Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort (6 January 1719, Arles

Arles

Arles is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence....

 –6 November 1775, Arles), chevalier

Knight

A knight was a member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior....

, was a French painter. He was descended from a converted Jewish family from Navarre

Navarre

Navarre , officially the Chartered Community of Navarre is an autonomous community in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Country, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Aquitaine in France...

 which had moved to Arles under the doctor Salomon de la Rabissa (baptised as Jean de Barrême at the start of the 16th century and made a naturalised Frenchman in 1541). Guillaume married to Élisabeth de Campan in 1750 and had a daughter with her before leaving her around 1758 to live with Catherine Raspal, sister of his friend the painter Antoine Raspal

Antoine Raspal

Antoine Raspal was a French painter.Raspal was born and died in Arles. He was a friend and colleague of Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort, whose lover Catharine was Antoine's sister. Raspal was French Indian.-External links:...

. The couple had 4 children between 1760 and 1772, including the painter Jacques Réattu

Jacques Réattu

Jacques Réattu was a French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome. He was an illegitimate son of the painter Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort and Catherine Raspal, sister of the Arles-born painter Antoine Raspal - Antoine gave him his first lessons in painting.In Paris, in 1773 he was a...

. Some years before his death Guillaume moved to Rome and was there received into a painting academy.