MIGNARD, NICHOLAS, an ingenious French painter, born at Troyes in 1628; but, settling at Avignon, is generally distinguished from his brother Peter by the appellation of Mignard of Avignon. He was afterwards employed at court and at Paris, where he became rector of the royal academy of painting.
There is a great number of his historical pieces and portraits in the palace of the Thuilleries. He died in 1699.