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Horace Vernet
1863Jan, 17

Horace Vernet

Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863), more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.

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