Portret van Henry Vassall-Fox (1795), door François-Xavier Fabre
Baron François-Xavier Fabre (Montpellier, April 1, 1766 - 16 March 1837) was a French painter of historical subjects.
Fabre was a student of Jacques-Louis David and won the Prix de Rome in 1787. During the French Revolution he lived in Florence where he became a lecturer at the Florentine Academy. He made various friends in Italy, including the playwright Vittorio Alfieri. With his widow, Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, Albany's Countess, he would have been married in secret. After Louise's death in 1824 he inherited her fortune, with which he founded an art academy in his hometown. The rest of the money he donated to the city council to open the Musée Fabre. Fabre was the first chairman of the art academy and the museum until his death. After his own death, he left his art collection next to the city, which would form the basis for the museum.
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