Philippe-Auguste Hennequin - Self-portrait

Philippe-Auguste Hennequin /filipoˈgyst ɛnˈkɛ̃/ (

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, 10 August 1762 –

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, near Tournai, 12 May 1833) was a French

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

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, Le Mans and Caen in 1820). Under the Bourbon Restoration, he went into self-imposed exile in

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, where he was director of the Académie de Tournai, 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hennequin 1762 births 1833 deaths Artists from Lyon 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters French portrait painters Pupils of Jacques-Louis David 19th-century painters of historical subjects 18th-century French male artists