Alexandre BALLY (French, 1764-1835)

BALLY is a French painter born in Paris in 1764, died in Marseille in 1835, student of Jacques-Louis DAVID. He lived in Marseille, after having been a teacher at the Central School of Nîmes. On July 19, 1827, he was admitted as a member of the Marseille Academy. He was especially a portrait painter.