The New Student's Reference Work/Vernet, Emile J. Horace

Vernet, Emile J. Horace, a French military painter, was born at Paris, June 30, 1789. His first military painting was the Capture of a Redoubt. His pictures of the life of Napoleon and the army, as The Dog of the Regiment, Soldier of Waterloo, Barrier of Clichy, were very popular, and engravings of them could be found in nearly every cottage in France. Louis Philippe sent him to represent the French government at Rome. He traveled extensively, wrote several works on art, and made hundreds of designs for illustrated books. His fame rests on his military pictures, as the battle-pictures of Jena, Wagram and Fontenoy and the Capture of the Imala. He died at Paris, Jan. 17, 1863.