Philippe Auguste Titeux

1814 Paris – 1846 Athens

Little is known of the life of the architect and watercolour draughtsman, Philippe Auguste Titeux, who died young. He began his studies in 1835 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the architect and architectural historian, Guillaume-Abel Blouet, and the painter and lithographer, Jean-Baptiste Debret. Titeux was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1842 and held a scholarship at the Académie de France in the city from 1843 to 1846. He presumably went straight from there to Greece or did so shortly afterwards, since he passed away the same year in Athens.