Louis Dupré
1789
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1837
French Orientalist and Philhellene painter (1789–1837)
Louis Dupré was a French painter, lithographer, and travel writer, especially noted for his travels in Albania, Armenia, Greece, and other regions within the Ottoman Empire, and for his numerous paintings with Orientalist and Philhellene themes. He travelled and worked primarily in Greece on the very eve of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832).
