Rudolphe Cabanel

He came to England early in life, and settled in London.

He designed the stage arrangements of the old Drury Lane Theatre for the reconstruction of the 1790s; in 1811, after the theatre was destroyed in a fire, the designs of Benjamin Dean Wyatt were preferred.

[2] At Sadler's Wells Theatre he reconstructed the auditorium, from 1802, following a model by Richard Hughes.

[4] He was the inventor of the "Cabanel roof", and a number of theatrical machines.

[2] Harriot Cabanel, a dancer at the Royal Circus and Rudolphe's sister, married the actor Jack Helme.