Auguste Hervieu

Frances Trollope painted by Auguste Hervieu, c. 1832

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[1] into a French family. His father was a colonel in the army of Napoleon. He studied at military school until his father's death, when he went to study art under Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. He was exiled from France in 1823 for his anti-royalist politics in the time of Louis XVIII, and he moved to England.[1] He worked in London as a painter and illustrator.[2] As a young man trying to make his living, he travelled to America in November 1827 with the writer Frances Trollope as her children's tutor: one of the children was the novelist Anthony Trollope.[3] He made the illustrations for Frances Trollope's 1840 book A Summer in Brittany.[4] He was married in London in 1844.[5]

In 1858 Hervieu exhibited at the Royal Academy.[1] Surviving portraits include Frances Trollope, and probably Anthony or Henry Trollope as a child; the engineer James Watt; and the society cook Charles Elmé Francatelli.[2][6]

Museums and galleries

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Hervieu, August, 1794-1858". Redwood Library and Athenaeum. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Auguste Hervieu". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Simon, Linda (1998). "A Vulgar Pushing Woman". New York Times. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Trollope, Frances (1840). A Summer in Brittany. London: Henry Colburn.
  5. ↑ "England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 transcription. Auguste Jean Jacques Hervieu". Find My Past. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Hervieu, Auguste". WorldCat. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
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