Jean-Hilaire Belloc

Jean-Hilaire Belloc (27 November 1786 in Nantes – 9 December 1866 in Paris) was a French painter.

Life

Belloc was a student in the studio of Antoine Gros then of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He won a medal at the 1810 Paris Salon for his Death of Gaul, friend of Ossian.

He was professor of drawing at the l'École-de-Médecine. He was made a Chevalier of the légion d'honneur in 1864. A bust of him was placed in the cimetière du Père Lachaise in November 2006.

Family

On 2 June 1821 he married Louise Swanton, an accomplished writer and translator of English literature into French. Their son, Louis, would later marry Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent English feminist who remained a close personal friend of Swanton's long after the premature death of her husband. Louis Belloc and Parkes had two children who became writers: Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes and Hilaire Belloc.

Works

• Death of Gaul, friend of Ossian, 1810
• The Flight into Egypt, 1812
• The Resting of the Holy Family, 1831
• Madame Belloc, His Daughter and the Painter, 1831 (Louvre)
• Portrait of Arthur Dillon, 1834 (museum of Versailles), right
• Death of Saint Louis, 1838
• Portrait of a lady in a chapeau-cloche, (Musée Magnin Dijon)

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