HenryPilleau, of Huguenot descent, was born in Kennington, London in 1813. Hisambition on leaving Westminster School was to be an artist, but he waspersuaded by his family to enter a more secure profession. For 25 years heserved in the Army Medical Corps, retiring as Deputy Inspector-General ofHospitals. Throughout his service, which includedyears of political unrest in India and Ireland, he practised his watercolourpainting, and in 1861 he left the army to devote himself full-time to his art.In the heyday of watercolour painting, before the development of colourphotography, he travelled extensively in the British Isles, Europe and theMiddle East and exhibited regularly.In 1896, at the age of 83, he wrote thismemoir of his life. He died three years later in Brighton.

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HenryPilleau, of Huguenot descent, was born in Kennington, London in 1813. Hisambition on leaving Westminster School was to be an artist, but he waspersuaded by his family to enter a more secure profession. For 25 years heserved in the Army Medical Corps, retiring as Deputy Inspector-General ofHospitals. Throughout his service, which includedyears of political unrest in India and Ireland, he practised his watercolourpainting, and in 1861 he left the army to devote himself full-time to his art.In the heyday of watercolour painting, before the development of colourphotography, he travelled extensively in the British Isles, Europe and theMiddle East and exhibited regularly.In 1896, at the age of 83, he wrote thismemoir of his life. He died three years later in Brighton.

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HenryPilleau, of Huguenot descent, was born in Kennington, London in 1813. Hisambition on leaving Westminster School was to be an artist, but he waspersuaded by his family to enter a more secure profession. For 25 years heserved in the Army Medical Corps, retiring as Deputy Inspector-General ofHospitals. Throughout his service, which includedyears of political unrest in India and Ireland, he practised his watercolourpainting, and in 1861 he left the army to devote himself full-time to his art.In the heyday of watercolour painting, before the development of colourphotography, he travelled extensively in the British Isles, Europe and theMiddle East and exhibited regularly.In 1896, at the age of 83, he wrote thismemoir of his life. He died three years later in Brighton.

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