Hortense haudebourt-lescot biography of william

French painter (1784–1845)

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Biography

She was born in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Viel, a perfumer, and his wife Cécile, née Lejeune.

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Her mother became a widow two years later and remarried; to Jean-Louis Lescot, a pharmacist.

At the age of seven, she began her studies with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, a popular history painter and family friend. When he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1807, she and several other artists followed him. They arrived in 1808, and she remained until 1816.

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There she depicted the customs and costumes of Italian peasants in great detail, which influenced much of her later work. During this time, she began signing her works with the name "Lescot".

Beginning in 1811, she sent her paintings to Paris, to be exhibited at the Salon.^{[2&# Collections Online - British Museum CYCEF}