Hippolyte Sebron Biography
Hippolyte Sebron was a French artist born on 21 August 1801 in Caudebec-en-Caux. He was a portraitist, landscape painter, landscape painter and photographer, also skilled in the use of pastel. A pupil of the famous Louis Daguerre, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the teaching of Léon Cogniet. Sebron regularly exhibited his works at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1878. Initially, he worked on painting dioramas, but later, he devoted himself to the creation of numerous paintings, especially interiors of churches and ruins, creating contrasting light effects. He was an itinerant artist, in fact many of his views were taken from his travels in Europe, the Mediterranean and even the United States, where he remained from 1849 to 1855. In 1838, he moved to the Spanish Basque Country for work. His works were awarded numerous times at the Paris Salon and his paintings exhibited in the United States earned him international fame. Sebron died on September 1, 1879 in Paris.
