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PHILIPPE AUGUSTE HENNEQUIN (1763-1833)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 272 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENNEQUIN (1763-1833)  , See also:French painter, was a See also:pupil of See also:David . He was See also:born at See also:Lyons in 1763, distinguished himself See also:early by winning the " See also:Grand Prix," and See also:left See also:France for See also:Italy . The disturbances at See also:Rome, during the course of the Revolution, obliged him to return to See also:Paris, where he executed the Federation of the 14th of See also:July, and he was at See also:work on a large See also:design commissioned for the See also:town-See also:hall of Lyons, when in July 1794 he was accused before the revolutionary tribunal and thrown into See also:prison . See also:Hennequin escaped, only to be anew accused and imprisoned in Paris, and after See also:running See also:great danger of See also:death, seems to have devoted himself thenceforth wholly to his profession . At Paris he finished the picture ordered for the See also:municipality of Lyons, and in 1801 produced his See also:chief work, " See also:Orestes pursued by the See also:Furies " (Louvre, engraved by See also:Landon, Annales du Musee, vol. i. p . 105) . He was one of the four painters who competed when in 1802 See also:Gros carried off the See also:official See also:prize for a picture of the See also:Battle of See also:Nazareth, and in 18o8 See also:Napoleon himself ordered Hennequin to illustrate a See also:series of scenes from his See also:German See also:campaigns, and commanded that his picture of the " Death of See also:General Salomon " should be engraved . After 1815 Hennequin retired to See also:Liege, and there, aided by subventions from the See also:Government, carried out a large See also:historical picture of the " Death of the Three See also:Hundred in See also:defence of Liege "—a See also:sketch of which he himself engraved . In 1824 Hennequin settled at Tournay, and became director of the See also:academy; he exhibited various See also:works at See also:Lille in the following See also:year, and continued to produce actively up to the See also:day of his death in May 1833 .

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