Jean-François Hue

Jean-François Hue (2 December 1751 – 26 December 1823) was a French painter, known for marine and landscape paintings.

Biography Jean-François Hue was born in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines. He entered the Académie Royale in 1782, on the strength of his painting Vue prise dans la forêt de Fontainebleau.

Hue was noticed by Joseph Vernet and became the pupil of Gabriel-François Doyen in Paris. He then joined Vernet's workshop, where he painted Quatre vues du château de Mousseaux et de ses jardins (undated, 74.8 × 85.8 cm).

In 1791, the Assemblée Constituante requested he finish the series Views of the Ports of France that Vernet had started in 1753 and left unfinished in 1765. Between 1792 and 1798, Hue created six paintings depicting the harbours of Brittany. His 1794 painting View of the Port of Brest was exhibited at the Salon of 1795 at the Louvre.

He died in Paris in 1823.

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