René le Brun,éleBrunComtedeLHô Comte de L'Hôpital (5 May 1877 – 4 November 1929) was an English artist.

L'Hôpital was the son of 6th Duc de Viry. He studied at the Royal Academy in London. His best known works are the illustrations he did for the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911) and his portraits of Pope Leo XIII, Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty and Prince Arthur of Connaught.

René le Brun, Comte de L'Hôpital

He is buried at St Mary Magdalen, Mortlake, together with his wife, Winefride de l’Hôpital, eldest daughter of the architect J F Bentley and author of Westminster Cathedral and Its Architect (1919).

René le Brun, Comte de L'Hôpital

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1877 births

1929 deaths

English illustrators

20th-century English painters

English male painters

20th-century English male artists

Burials at St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake

René le Brun, Comte de L'Hôpital