Philippe-Auguste Hennequin (Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

, 10 August 1762 — Leuze-en-Hainaut

Leuze-en-Hainaut

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, near Tournai

Tournai

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, 12 May 1833) was a French history painter

History painting

History painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait...

 and portraitist.

A student of the Swede Per Eberhard Cogell

Per Eberhard Cogell

Per Eberhard Cogell was a Swedish artist who worked in France. He was born in Stockholm.-Sources:*http://www.askart.com/askart/c/per_eberhard_cogell/per_eberhard_cogell.aspx...

 (1734-1812) in Lyon, then in Paris

Paris

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 a student of David

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

, he then went to Rome

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 thanks to an English patron, but was forced to leave the city due to the anti-French riots of 1793. Under the First French Empire

First French Empire

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 he produced large historical compositions, such as A Distribution of the Légion d'Honneur

Légion d'honneur

The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...

 at the Boulogne camp

Napoleon's invasion of England

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(1806), A Battle of the Pyramids

Battle of the Pyramids

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(1806) and the 4m by 6m The Triumph of the French people on 10 August

10th of August (French Revolution)

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(1799, won the first prize at the Paris Salon

Paris Salon

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 that year but was cut up and split between the museums of Rouen

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

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, Angers, Le Mans and Caen

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

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 in 1820). Under the Bourbon Restoration

Bourbon Restoration

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, he went into self-imposed exile in Belgium

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, where he was director of the Académie de Tournai

Tournai

Tournai is a Walloon city and municipality of Belgium located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels, on the river Scheldt, in the province of Hainaut....

, though he later died in poverty. Many of his drawings are held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon

The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. It is housed near place des Terreaux in a former Benedictine convent of the 17th and 18th centuries. It was restored between 1988 and 1998, and despite these important restoration works it remained open...

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