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Neuville, Alphonse(-Marie-Adolphe) de
(b Saint-Omer, 31 May 1835; d Paris, 19 May 1885). French painter. He was first attracted to art while a cadet at the Ecole Navale. At the insistence of his wealthy family he withdrew after one year to study law. Already keen to become a military artist, de Neuville often sketched the troops training on the Champ de Mars or at the Ecole Militaire. He decided to study art in Paris, although consultations with the established military artists Hippolyte Bellangé and Adolphe Yvon were not encouraging, and it was only with difficulty that he gained a place as a student in the atelier of François-Edouard Picot, where Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour (1838–1910) was a contemporary. Soon disaffected with Picot’s stultifying regime, de Neuville set out on his own and by 1859 had his first painting accepted at the Salon: the Fifth Battalion of Chasseurs at the Gervais Battery (untraced). His entry won a third-class medal and praise from Eugène Delacroix. From then de Neuville’s way to independent success was firmly established.
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