Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle, a French decorative painter and architect, was born in Paris in 1818. He studied under Delaroche, and afterwards served on the

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. He died at Florence in 1879. He was largely engaged in mural paintings for churches, and specimens of his art will be found in the

Abbey of St. Denis The Basilica of Saint-Denis (french: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, links=no, now formally known as the ) is a large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. The building ...

, in St. Paul at

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, St. Polycarp at

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s, the Oratory at Birmingham, the Church of the Celestines at

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, and in Strassburg Cathedral.

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* 1818 births 1879 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French architects French muralists Painters from Paris Architects from Paris 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub