Complex sentence: Grandville received his first instruction in drawing from his father, a miniature painter, and at the age of twenty-one moved to Paris, where he soon afterwards published a collection of lithographs entitled "Les Tribulations de la petite proprieté".
Split into simpler sentences: Grandville received his first instruction in drawing from his father, a painter of miniatures. At the age of twenty-one moved to Paris, where he soon afterwards published a collection of lithographs entitled "Les Tribulations de la petite proprieté".