René Théodore Berthon
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René Théodore Berthon (1776–1859) was a French painter of religious and historical subjects, and of portraits.
Life
[edit]Berthon was born at Tours in 1776, and studied under David. He painted scriptural and historical subjects, and a large number of portraits, which, although of no great merit, gained him a certain reputation in the days of the first empire and the restoration. Among his portraits are those of Napoleon I when First Consul, Pauline Bonaparte, Mademoiselle Duchesnois, and Lady Morgan. Several of his historical pictures are at Versailles. He died in Paris in 1859.[1]
His daughter, Sidonie Berthon, a miniature painter, was a pupil of her father and of Mme de Mirbel. She was born in Paris in 1817, and died in 1871.[1]
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His son, George Théodore Berthon, was a portrait artist who emigrated to England and then to Canada.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bryan 1886
Sources
[edit]This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Berthon, René Théodore". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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