Anthelme Trimolet

Anthelme Claude Honoré Trimolet (8 May 1798 - 17 December 1866) was a French painter, notable for portraits and interiors with figures.

At the age of ten, he was assigned to the Special School of Design and studied with Pierre Révoil until 1813.

He received a gold laurel in 1815 and had his first exhibition at the Salon in 1819 with his "Interior of a Mechanic's Workshop".

He was an opponent of the prevailing trend for minute detail in paintings and wrote a short poem on the subject in which he singled out Adriaen van der Werff for special praise.

Together with his wife, Edma, who was also an artist, he amassed a large collection of paintings and other art objects as well as coins, furniture, jewellery and old weapons.