Eugène Appert who was born at

Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...

in 1814, went to Paris in 1837, and became a disciple of

Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( ; ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

. He painted numerous pictures of merit, among which are a portrait of ''Pope Alexander III as a Beggar'', which is now in the

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; ''Nero before the dead body of Agrippina'', in the Museum of Montauban, and several pictures of religious subjects in the hospital of Angers. Appert painted genre and historical subjects, and also still-life. He was a Chevalier of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

. He died at

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in 1867.

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* 19th-century French painters French male painters 1814 births 1867 deaths Artists from Angers Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male artists Artists awarded knighthoods {{France-painter-19thC-stub