Adolphe-Hippolyte Couveley

Adolphe-Hippolyte Couveley, originally Couvelet (16 November 1802, Charleville-Mézières – 27 April 1867, Le Havre) was a French painter and lithographer who specialized in maritime subjects.

[2] While serving in that role, he met the young painter, Eugène Boudin, and became his sponsor.

In 1851, he was able to obtain a grant from Le Havre that would enable Boudin to study in Paris.

His "View of Marseille", exhibited at the Salon of 1861, was scathingly dismissed by the painter and critic, Charles-Olivier Merson [fr].

[5] When he died, a large part of his debt was paid by selling the paintings he had loaned to the museum in Le Havre, depriving it of much of its collection.