Pierre Adolphe Valette (13 October 1876 – 18 April 1942) was a French Impressionist painter who spent most of his career in England.

[1] Born in Saint-Étienne in eastern central France, on 13 October 1876,[2] he trained at the Ecole Municipale de Beaux-Arts et des Arts Decoratifs in Bordeaux.

Valette arrived in England for unknown reasons in 1904 and studied at the Birkbeck Institute, now part of the University of London.

[3] Salford painter L. S. Lowry became a pupil of Valette, and expressed great admiration for his tutor, who taught him new techniques and showed him the potential of the urban landscape as a subject.

A series of fourteen drawings by Valette, mounted between glass as lantern slides, were used by his second wife to give a lecture in 1945, at Manchester University, about winemaking in Beaujolais.