Artist

Lionel Royer

1852–1926 · born in Château-du-Loir · died in Neuilly-sur-Seine

Lionel Royer was a French painter born in Château-du-Loir in 1852. He studied in Paris and painted large pictures of French history and legend, which were popular in the years after France's defeat in the war of 1870. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1926.