Jean-Hilaire Belloc

Jean-Hilaire Belloc (27 November 1786, Nantes - 9 December 1866, Paris) was a French painter.

Life

He was a student in the studio of Antoine Gros then of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He won a medal at the 1810 Paris Salon for his "Death of Gaul, friend of Ossian". [Dictionnaire Nouveau Larousse illustré, tome deuxième claude augé]

He was professor of drawing at the "l'École-de-Médecine". He was made a Chevalier of the légion d'honneur in 1864.A bust of him was placed in the cimetière du Père Lachaise in November 2006. [ [http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=850 site Association des Amis et Passionnés du Père-Lachaise] ]

Famille

On 2 June 1821 he married the English writer Louise Swanton, who was also a translator of English poetry into French. Their grandchildren include the writers Marie Belloc Lowndes and Joseph Hilaire Belloc.

Works

*"Death of Gaul, friend of Ossian", 1810
*"The Flight into Egypt", 1812
*"The Resting of the Holy Family", 1831
*"Madame Belloc, His Daughter and the Painter", 1831 (Louvre)
*"Portrait of Arthur Dillon", 1834 (museum of Versailles), "right"
*"Death of Saint Louis", 1838
*"Portrait of a lady in a chapeau-cloche", (Musée Magnin Dijon) [ [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr Ministère de la culture - base Joconde ] ]

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