Philippe-Auguste Hennequin - Self-portrait

Philippe-Auguste Hennequin /filipoˈgyst ɛnˈkɛ̃/ (

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, 10 August 1762 –

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, near

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, 12 May 1833) was a French

history painter History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek mythology, Greek and Roman my ...

and portraitist. A student of the Swede Per Eberhard Cogell (1734–1812) in Lyon, then in

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a student of

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, he then went to

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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

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

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at the Boulogne camp'' (1806), ''A

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'' (1806) and the 4m by 6m '' The Triumph of the French people on 10 August'' (1799, won the first prize at the

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

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, Le Mans and

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in 1820). Under the

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, he went into self-imposed exile in

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, where he was director of the Académie de

, though he later died in poverty. Many of his drawings are held at the

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References

* Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, ''Un peintre sous la Révolution et le Premier Empire. Mémoires de Ph.Aug. Hennequin, écrits par lui-même, réunis et mis en forme par Jenny Hennequin'', Paris, 1933. * Jérémie Benoit, ''Philippe-Auguste Hennequin 1762-1833'',

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, Paris, 1994.

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