Henri-Paul Mottez


Henri-Paul Mottez was a French portrait painter and artist.

Life

He was born in London 1855 to Victor Mottez and his second wife, Georgina Page. Henri-Paul was trained in the Académe Julian under Jules Lefebure, and ultimately entered the École des Beaux-Arts under Lehmann. The Mottez family was highly religious and devoted to the House of Bourbon, and so the July Revolution in 1830 came as a catastrophe to them. Henri-Paul Mottez died in 1937.
Henri-Paul Mottez's painting of his father's studio 'In the Studio of the Artist, Oil on Canvas' was auctioned at Christie's New York, in 1989.

Family

  1. His father, Victor Mottez, French fresco painter and portraitist, born in Lille.
  2. His mother, Georgina Page, whom Victor Mottez married in the England.
  3. His step-brother, contre-amiral Jean Mottez, who became director of the fleet's military personnel, commander of the Mediterranean schools and sous-chef d'État-Major général of the Navy, and who had many descendants.

    Portraits