Eugène Louis Lami (January 12, 1800 – December 19, 1890) is an English painter, watercolorist, illustrator, lithographer and decorator.Eugène Lami studies painting at the School of Fine Arts from the age of 17, meets Theodore Géricault and learns the watercolor of the English romantic painter Richard Parkes Bonington.

He produces several lithographs on the Spanish cavalry and the French army uniforms. Louis-Philippe commissions paintings from him with military subjects for the museum of the history of France created at the castle of Versailles.

Eugène Lami then turns to genre scenes, painting the sophisticated life of the court and the bourgeoisie. He focuses on watercolor, which becomes his favorite art for the rest of his life.

Alors qu’il n’est plus tout jeune, il s’intéresse de plus en plus aux scènes d’histoire. À soixante-dix-neuf ans, il fonde la Société des aquarellistes français. Il continue à peindre jusqu’à sa mort, à l’âge de quatre-vingt-dix ans.

In 1844, Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale, calls on him for the layout of his private apartments at the Chantilly Castle. He is also in charge of decorating the castle of Ferrières, completed in 1859, and the castle of Rothschild in Boulogne-Billancourt, completed in 1861 for Baron James de Rothschild.

When he is no longer in the first flush of youth, he becomes increasingly interested in scenes of the history. At the age of seventy-nine, he founds the Société des aquarellistes français. He continues to paint until his death, at the age of ninety.