Philippe-Auguste Hennequin

Biography

A student of the Swede Per Eberhard Cogell (1734–1812) in Lyon, then in Paris a student of David, he then went to Rome thanks to an English patron, but was forced to leave the city due to the anti-French riots of 1793. Under the First French Empire he produced large historical compositions, such as Napoleon Distributing the Legion of Honour at the Camp of Boulogne (1806), A Battle of the Pyramids (1806) and the 4m by 6m The Triumph of the French people on 10 August (1799, won the first prize at the Paris Salon that year but was cut up and split between the museums of Rouen, Angers, Le Mans and Caen in 1820). Under the Bourbon Restoration, he went into self-imposed exile in Belgium, where he was director of the Académie de Tournai, though he later died in poverty. Many of his drawings are held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Gallery

File:Philippe-Auguste HENNEQUIN - Bataille de Quiberon - Musée des Augustins - 2004 1 62.jpg|The Battle of Quiberon, 1804 File:Hennequin - Napoléon Ier distribue les croix de la légion d'honneur au camp de Boulogne le 16 août 1804 (grand).jpg|Napoleon Distributing the Legion of Honour at the Camp of Boulogne, 1806

References

• Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, Un peintre sous la Révolution et le Premier Empire. Mémoires de Ph.Aug. Hennequin, écrits par lui-même, réunis et mis en forme par Jenny Hennequin, Paris, 1933.
• Jérémie Benoit, Philippe-Auguste Hennequin 1762-1833, Arthéna, Paris, 1994.