Victor Gustave Lhuillier (19 April 1844 – July 1889) was a French engraver and etcher. Born at

Altkirch Altkirch (, ; gsw, label= Alsatian, Àltkìrech) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. The town is traditionally regarded as the capital of Sundgau. Etymology The name of the commune means ''old church'' ( ...

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, which was then in France, Lhuillier studied art in

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s and was a pupil of

Léon Gaucherel Léon Gaucherel (21 May 1816 – 7 January 1886) was a French painter and etcher. Born at Paris, Gaucherel became a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. His first engravings were to illustrate archeological publications, and next he began to produce e ...

(1816–1886). "LHUILLIER (Victor-Gustave)", in Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie, ''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours'', Volume 1 (1882)
p. 1046
/ref> In 1870, following the Franco-Prussian War, France ceded Alsace to Germany, and in 1872 Lhuillier opted to remain a French citizen."Victor Lhuillier" in ''Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, French Citizenship Declarations (Optants), 1872'', ancestry.com Citizenship Records;

1881 United Kingdom census The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881, and was the fifth of the UK censuses to include details of household members. Data recorded Details collected include: address, ...

Elphinstone Terrace, Hastings
accessed 2 October 2021 Work by Lhuillier was included in exhibitions of the

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in Paris between 1879 and 1882 and of the

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in London from 1878 to 1888. For most of his career, he worked in England.Victor Gustave Lhuillier

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, accessed 2 October 2021 Lhuillier is recorded in the

living in Elphinstone Terrace,

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

, with his London-born wife Eulalie, aged 24, their three young daughters, Henriette, Louise, and Augustine, and their two-year-old son Louis. He was described as an "Engraver Artist" born in France. In his ''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française'' (1882), La Chavignerie listed some notable works by Lhuillier, all with titles in English, including "Lazy moments", "Valentine", "The waning of the honey-moon", and "Three jolly post-boys". He also gave an address for Lhuillier in Campton Street,

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Victor Gustave Lhuillier (active 1875)

National Portrait Gallery, London The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it ...

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