Auguste Hervieu

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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] The Broad Arrow by Oliné Keese (1859)[5] and others. He was married in London in 1844.[6]

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][7]

Museums and galleries[]

  • Oil painting of Mary Custis Lee, 1830

  • Engraving Boulevard des Italiens (Paris), 1835

  • November Fair in the Hoher Markt, 1838, drawn and engraved by Hervieu

  • Stipple engraving by Samuel Freeman after Hervieu of Charles Elmé Francatelli, probably in 1846, serving as the Frontispiece to Francatelli's The Modern Cook

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Hervieu, August, 1794-1858". Redwood Library and Athenaeum. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "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. ^ Leakey, Caroline (1859). "Broad Arrow". purl.library.usyd.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  6. ^ "England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 transcription. Auguste Jean Jacques Hervieu". Find My Past. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  7. ^ "Hervieu, Auguste". WorldCat. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
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