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, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter.
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28 December 1781
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Died |
25 July 1857 (aged 75)
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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