Julien-Léopold Boilly (1796-1874)
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- Name (English)
- Julien-Léopold Boilly
- Short name
- Julien-Léopold Boilly
- Year of birth
- 1796
- Year of death
- 1874
- Short Description
- "Julien-Léopold Boilly (1796–1874), also known as Jules Boilly, was a French artist noted for his album of lithographs Iconographie de l´Institut Royal de France (1820–1821) and his booklet Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de l’Institut (1820) containing watercolor caricatures of seventy-three famous mathematicians, in particular the French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, the only known portrait of him.
Born in Paris on 30 August 1796, he was a son of the genial painter-engraver Louis-Léopold Boilly. Admitted to the lycée at Versailles 15 December 1806, he painted portraits and illustrated books with lithographs. He also collected autographs. He died on 14 June 1874." - (en.wikipedia.org 19.11.2019) - Entity Encoding
- piz
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