Alexis Simon Belle was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.
As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that of his master François de Troy, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and Nicolas de Largillière. He was the master of the painter Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved (1702–1766).
Alexis Simon Belle, self portrait
Belle's painting of Jacobite pretender James Edward Stuart in armor
Mariana Victoria of Spain, fiancée of Louis XV, later Queen of Portugal
Portrait by Alexis Simon Belle of Charles-François-Marie de Custine, Chevalier de Wiltz
François de Troy was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Portrait of Troy from 1703 by his student and Academy member Alexis Simon Belle
Jules Hardouin Mansart
Princess Louisa Maria Stuart, about 1705
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre