Henri Serrur

Henri Auguste Calixte César Serrur (1794–1865, signed Henry Auguste or Calixte) was a French painter. A student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he specialised on history paintings and battle scenes. He painted the portraits of the nine Avignon Popes kept at the papal palais in Avignon.

Serrur, Self-portrait

References
    • E. A. Fleischmann, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon vol. 16 (1846), p. 290.
    • Francis Petit (ed.), Catalogue des Tableaux, Esquisses, Études & Croquis laissés par Serrur, Peintre d'Histoire (1866) (bnf.fr).
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