Julien-Léopold Boilly
French artist
Died when: 77 years 288 days (933 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Julien-Léopold Boilly (1796–1874), also known as Jules Boilly, was a French artist noted for his album of lithographs Iconographie de l'Institut Royal de France (1820–1821) and his booklet Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de l’Institut (1820) containing watercolor caricatures of seventy-three famous mathematicians, in particular the French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, the only known portrait of him.
Born in Paris on 30 August 1796, he was a son of the genial painter-engraver Louis-Léopold Boilly.Admitted to the lycée at Versailles 15 December 1806, he painted portraits and illustrated books with lithographs.
He also collected autographs.He died on 14 June 1874. * Cortège de l'empereur de Chine
* François-Adrien Boieldieu 1825
* Jean-Baptiste Stouf
