Achille Etna Michallon (22 October 1796 – 24 September 1822) was a French painter.
[1] He studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes.
In 1817, Michallon won the inaugural Prix de Rome for landscape painting.
Before he had much time to develop what he had learned however, he died at the age of 25 of pneumonia,[2] a tragedy which cut short the life of a talented and well respected artist who could have gone on to win lasting fame.
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