Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé (17 January 1800 – 10 April 1866) was a Frenchbattle painter and printmaker.[1] His art was influenced by the wars of the firstNapoleon, and while a youth, he produced several military drawings inlithography. He afterwards pursued his systematic studies underGros, and with the exception of some portraits, devoted himself exclusively to battle-pieces. In 1824, he received a second class medal for a historical picture, and in 1834 the decoration of theLegion of Honour, of which Order he was made an officer in 1861. He also gained a prize at theParis Universal Exhibition of 1855.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Bryan, Michael (1886)."Bellange, Joseph Louis Hippolyte". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.).Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.