René Théodore Berthon

Training under Jacques-Louis David is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history and portrait. Works named in the authority record are Johan Fredrik Aminoff, Johan Albrekt Ehrenström and Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt. Work by René Théodore Berthon is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Musée de l'Histoire de France, National Gallery of Ireland, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens and National Portrait Gallery of Sweden.

Berthon was born at Tours in 1776, and studied under David. He painted scriptural and historical subjects, and a large number of portraits, which, although of no great merit, gained him a certain reputation in the days of the first empire and the restoration. Among his portraits are those of Napoleon I when First Consul, Pauline Bonaparte, Mademoiselle Duchesnois, and Lady Morgan. Several of his historical pictures are at Versailles. He died in Paris in 1859. His daughter, Sidonie Berthon, a miniature painter, was a pupil of her father and of Mme de Mirbel. She was born in Paris in 1817, and died in 1871. His son, George Théodore Berthon, was a portrait artist who emigrated to England and then to Canada.

• Illustration — Napoleon Receiving the Senate Deputies in Berlin, 1808 • Illustration — Portrait of Lady Morgan, 1818

The authorities additionally record the headings Rene Berthon, René-Théodore Berthon, Rene Theodore Berthon, Rene-Theodore Berthon and Berthon. His recorded language was French. 2 children are recorded: George Theodore Berthon and Sidonie Berthon.