Jean-Hilaire Belloc

Belloc was a student in the studio of Antoine Gros then of Jean-Baptiste Regnault.

He won a medal at the 1810 Paris Salon for his Death of Gaul, friend of Ossian.

[2] On 2 June 1821 he married Louise Swanton, an accomplished writer and translator of English literature into French.

Their son, Louis, would later marry Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent English feminist who remained a close personal friend of Swanton's long after the premature death of her husband.

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