Jean-Hilaire Belloc Explained

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.^[1]

He was professor of drawing at the l'École-de-Médecine. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1864.A bust of him was placed in the cimetière du Père Lachaise in November 2006.^[2]

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.^{[3] [4] [5]}

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)

Notes & Sources

1. Dictionnaire Nouveau Larousse illustré, tome deuxième, Claude Augé
2. Web site: site Association des Amis et Passionnés du Père-Lachaise . 16 September 2008 . 14 February 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120214024254/http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=850 . dead .
3. Web site: Swanton Belloc. Anne-Louise. Papers of Louise Swanton Belloc. Janus (Cambridge University Archives). Cambridge University. 25 February 2016. Personal Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes. Journals, biographical materials, family papers, and correspondence.
4. Book: Hirsch. Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. 1999. Pimlico (Random House). London. 9780701167974. Chapter 13. 25 February 2016. e-book.
5. Book: Reinis. J.G.. The Portrait Medallions of David D'Angers: An Illustrated Catalogue of David's Contemporary and Retrospective Portraits in Bronze. 1999. Polymath Press. New York. 0937370010. 452.