Jean Benner (28 March 1836, in Mulhouse – 28 October 1906, in Paris) was a French artist.

[1][2] The Benner brothers were first designers at Mulhouse mills and factories.

By 30 years of age, Jean was able to study art with Léon Bonnat, Eck and Jean-Jacques Henner and exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1868.

[3] He painted still-life, portrait and genre paintings, including After a Storm at Capri (1872), Trappist in Prayer (1875), Petite Falle de Capri, Flowers and Fruits (1868),[1] and Reverie.

[4] He also painted in the Isle of Capri, which was an artist colony at that time, its residents included Frederic Leighton, Walter McLaren, John Singer Sargent, Edouard Alexandre Sain, and Sophie Gengembre Anderson.