Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio [SEP] place of death
Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
Antoine Léon Morel, later Morel-Fatio (1810-1871) was a French naval painter, Peintre officiel de la Marine, curator of the naval and ethnographic museum of the Louvre, and mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He added Fatio in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name. It was apparently in reference to a Swiss branch of the family.
Biography.
When he still very young his father, Étienne-Louis Morel, moved the family
Fatio
Fatio is a surname, and may refer to:
- Francis Philip Fatio, Swiss colonist of Florida
- Jean Christophe Fatio, Swiss natural philosopher
- Louise Fatio, children's author
- Maurice Fatio, American architect
- Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Swiss mathematician and astronomer
- Pierre Fatio, Genevan politician
- Victor Fatio, Swiss zoologist
- Alfred Morel-Fatio, French linguist
- Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio, French painter
See also.
- Facio
- Faccio