Horace Vernet
(1789–1863) fransk målare
Horace Vernet (France, 1789–1863) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, a draughtsman, and a photographer. By year of birth, Horace Vernet belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Horace Vernet was born in Paris and died in Paris. Horace Vernet trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Horace Vernet studied under François-André Vincent. Wikidata associates Horace Vernet with Romanticism. Horace Vernet became a member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Académie des beaux-arts, and Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. The awards include Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Knight in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, resident at the Villa Medici, and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. The students included Jules Breton, Joseph Simon Volmar, Ignace-François Bonhommé, and Jean-Paul Alaux.
The best-known works include ‘The battle of Jena, October 14, 1806’, ‘The Battle of Bouvines’, and ‘Battle of Fontenoy, 11th of May 1745’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting, landscape painting, and portrait. The catalogue has 147 works by Horace Vernet with free images. The dated works span the years 1807–1900. Works by Horace Vernet are held by several collections, among them Wallace Collection, Musée de l'Histoire de France, Prints in the National Gallery of Art, and Département des peintures du Louvre. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Carl von Steuben, Louis Dupré, Jules Robert Auguste, John Martin, and Alexandre-François Caminade.