page_title: René Théodore Berthon
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: René Théodore Berthon / Life
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of the Irish novelist Lady Morgan (née Sydney Owenson; 25 December 1781? – 14 April 1859)
context_page_description: René Théodore Berthon was a French painter of religious and historical subjects, and of portraits.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Lady Morgan, portrait, now at the National Gallery of Ireland.
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