Michel Adrien Servant, French, (1885–1949), was a graduate of L’Ècole Estienne, in Paris
and an assistant to the English painter Frank Brangwyn.
Servant’s own artistic career did not develop until the 1920s. Established in the town
of Cherbourg in Normandy, he fulfilled numerous community commissions as well as executing
portraits and landscapes. [DES–4/07]
It is a hard case, that a Gentleman shall educate his Son in all proper Learning, at a very great Expence, and then a Barber, Farrier, Sow-gelder, etc., shall have the Liberty to practice, and often get more Business, by pure Dint of Impudence.
Edward Cave's Gentleman's Magazine, 'Letters to the Editor', (Dec. 1733).