Eugénie Servières

Training under Guillaume Guillon-Lethière is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are Inès de Castro and Her Children Throwing Themselves at the Feet of King Alphonso IV of Portugal. Work by Eugénie Servières is recorded in the collections of Palace of Versailles, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Libourne, Centre national des arts plastiques, Musée de l'Histoire de France and Musée Louis-Philippe.

• Name — Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Servières • Birth Name — Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Charen • Birthplace — Paris • Died — 1855 • Place of death — Paris

In 1807 she married the playwright Joseph Servières. She trained with her stepfather, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, Director of the French Academy in Rome. Beginning in 1808, she exhibited her paintings, on a wide variety of subjects, in several venues. In 1808 and 1817, The Paris Salon awarded her medals. In 1825, she displayed two works at the Salon in Lille. Her paintings include Hagar in the Desert, Lancelot and Genevieve, Louis XIII and Mlle. de Lafayette, Alain Chartier and Marguerite d'Écosse, Valentine de Milan, Desdemona Singing the Romance of the Willow, and Blanche de Castille Delivering the Prisoners of Châtenay. Her Mathilde converts Malek-Adhel to Christianity (1812, from a novel about the Crusades by Sophie Cottin) was purchased by the Empress Marie Louise for her personal collection, while the evocative Inez de Castro and her Children at the feet of the King of Portugal is preserved at the Trianon Palace at Versailles, near Paris. Most of her works were personally commissioned, and very few are in museums. She had several students.