Philippe Chéry (1759–1838) was a French historical and portrait painter, and a pupil of

Joseph-Marie Vien Joseph-Marie Vien (sometimes anglicised as Joseph-Mary Wien; 18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809) was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791. Biography He was born in Montpellier. P ...

. He was born in Paris, took an active part in the French Revolution, was wounded at the siege of the Bastille, and on the 18th Brumaire left France, to which he did not return until 1802. He painted ''The Annunciation'' in the church of

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, ''St. Benedict receiving the Viaticum'', and two other religious subjects, which are in the church of

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, ''St. Cecilia'', in the

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Convent in the same town, and several other scriptural and religious subjects. He also painted ''The Treaty of Amiens'', for which he received the prize of 12,000 francs in the competition in the year XI (1803); ''The Death of the Father of Louis XVI.'', exhibited in 1817; ''Thrasybulus Re-establishing the Democratic Government at Athens'', which passed into England, ''The Death of

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'', ''The Birth of Venus'', ''The Toilet of Venus'', and portraits of many of the men of mark of the time. He died in Paris in 1838.

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