Hippolyte Lecomte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hippolyte Lecomte

French painter

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1781

Place of Birth: Puiseaux, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 25-Jul-1857

Profession: painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Hippolyte Lecomte (28 December 1781, Puiseaux – 25 July 1857, Paris) was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs.
His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet; the caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J.
Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio.
His son, Charles Emile Hippolyte Lecomte-Vernet, was also a noted painter.