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Henri Auguste Calixte César Serrur (1794–1865, signed ''Henry Auguste'' or ''Calixte'') was a French painter.
A student of
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*Francis Petit (ed.), ''Catalogue des Tableaux, Esquisses, Études & Croquis laissés par Serrur, Peintre d'Histoire'' (1866)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Serrur, Henri 19th-century French painters 1794 births 1865 deaths
Henri Auguste Calixte César Serrur (1794–1865, signed ''Henry Auguste'' or ''Calixte'') was a French painter.
A student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault (9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter.
Biography
Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to I ...
, he specialised on history paintings and battle scenes. He painted the portraits of the nine Avignon Popes
The Avignon Papacy was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon – at the time within the Kingdom of Arles, part of the Holy Roman Empire; now part of France – rather than in Rome. The situation arose ...
kept at the papal palais in Avignon.
References
*E. A. Fleischmann, ''Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon'' vol. 16 (1846)p. 290
*Francis Petit (ed.), ''Catalogue des Tableaux, Esquisses, Études & Croquis laissés par Serrur, Peintre d'Histoire'' (1866)
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