Auguste Jean Jacques Hervieu (born 1794?; active 1819–1858) was a French painter and book illustrator, working in London.

Life

Hervieu was born near Paris in about 1794 into a French family. His father was a colonel in the army of

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

. He studied at military school until his father's death, when he went to study art under

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (or ''de Roucy''), also known as Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson or simply Girodet (29 January 17679 December 1824),Long, George. (1851) ''The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...

. He was exiled from France in 1823 for his anti-royalist politics in the time of

Louis XVIII Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent twenty-three years in ...

, and he moved to England. He worked in London as a painter and illustrator. As a young man trying to make his living, he travelled to America in November 1827 with the writer

Frances Trollope Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863), was an English novelist who wrote as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her book, '' Domestic Manners of the Americans'' (1832), observations from a ...

as her children's tutor: one of the children was the novelist Anthony Trollope. He made the illustrations for Frances Trollope's 1840 book ''A Summer in Brittany,'' ''

The Broad Arrow ''The Broad Arrow; Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer'' is an 1859 novel published by the English writer Caroline Leakey, Caroline Woolmer Leakey under the pseudonym Oliné Keese. Set in Van Diemen's Land, it was one of ...

'' by Oliné Keese (1859) and others. He was married in London in 1844. In 1858 Hervieu exhibited at the Royal Academy. Surviving portraits include Frances Trollope, and probably Anthony or Henry Trollope as a child; the

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

James Watt; and the society cook

Charles Elmé Francatelli Charles Elmé Francatelli (180510 August 1876) was an Italian British cook, known for his cookery books popular in the Victorian era, such as '' The Modern Cook''. Biography Francatelli was born in London, of Italian descent, in 1805. He was ...

Museums and galleries

* National Portrait Gallery, London (9 portraits) * Redwood Library and Athenaeum (1 portrait) File:Mary-Custis-Lee.jpg, Oil painting of Mary Custis Lee, 1830 File:Boulevard des Italiens, 1835.jpg, Engraving ''Boulevard des Italiens'' (Paris), 1835 File:Hoher Markt Vienna 1838.jpg, ''November Fair in the Hoher Markt'', 1838, drawn and engraved by Hervieu File:Charles Elmé Francatelli by Auguste Hervieu.jpg, Stipple engraving by Samuel Freeman after Hervieu of

, probably in 1846, serving as the Frontispiece to Francatelli's '' The Modern Cook''

References

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