Jean-Louis Hamon

Jean -Louis Hamon ( born May 5, 1821 in Plouha, department Côtes- d'Armor, † May 29, 1874 in Saint- Raphaël, Var ) was a French painter.

Hamon was, 20 years old, to Paris and joined Hippolyte Delaroche, later Charles Gleyre in teaching. The sight of drawings by Pompeian wall paintings were his quest a certain direction, and he knew with a lucky own genre that absorbed. new Pompeian to create.

In 1852 he was hired as a painter in the porcelain manufactory at Sèvres. In 1849 the exhibition was a painting original imaginary: a Roman theater tickets, which attracted attention; 1852 appeared the comedy of human life and in 1853 My sister is not here, an idyll, which applies to the most successful works of the painter.

Among his later pictures belong I do not bins and Orphans (1855 ).