Julien-Léopold Boilly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Julien-Léopold Boilly
- 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.
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