Joseph-Henri Deville
Born in 1803.
Died in 1857.
Joseph-Henri Deville was a versatile artist recognised as a painter, watercolourist, lithographer, engraver and illustrator. His oeuvre includes genre paintings as well as portraits. Deville also taught at the Musée Rath’s Drawing School between 1844 and 1851, thereby contributing to the training of the artists of his time.
His artistic career reflects a diversity of approaches and a commitment to the teaching of the visual arts.