Vallin entered the school of the French Academy in Paris in about 1775. He was taught by Drevet, Callet and Renou. He exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1827.
Born into a family of physicians in Picerno, then in the Kingdom of Naples, Joseph-Nicolas-Blaise Forlenze (1751–1833) was a pioneering ophthalmologist and surgeon based in Paris, where this near life-size portrait of him was exhibited at the Salon of 1808.Fashionably dressed in a long-tailed bla...