Alphonse de Neuville | |
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Born | Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville 31 May 1835 |
Died | 18 May 1885 Paris, France | (aged 49)
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Academic art |
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (French pronunciation: [alfɔ̃s maʁi adɔlf də nøvil]; 31 May 1835 – 18 May 1885) was a French academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War, and portraits of soldiers. Some of his works have been collected by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and by the Metropolitan Museum in New York.