1818, Paris, FRANCE: The french painter Achille-Etna MICHALLON (1796-1822). Portrait by Leon Cogniet, Rome, 1818, engraved by J. Coiny in 1822. Was the son of sculptor Claude Michallon. He studied under Jacques-Louis David and in 1817 won the inaugural Prix de Rome for landscape painting. He travelled to Italy in 1818 and remained there for over two years. He died at the age of 25 of pneumonia