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See also:HENNEQUIN, PHILIPPE AUGUSTE (1763-1833) , See also:French painter, was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
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
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of Lyons, when in July 1794 he was accused before the revolutionary tribunal and thrown into See also:prison. 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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