The West coast of France, including most of the North Sea coast line and the biggest portion of the Atlantic Coast. Home of the famous Normandy and Brittany regions.
Adrien Dauzats was a French landscape, genre painter and painter of Oriental subject matter. He travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and illustrated a number of books for the travel writer, Baron Taylor.
Despite travelling extensively in the Middle East, he also painted a lot on France.
Here is a painting of his he made in Harfleur, a village suburb of Le Havre.
George Braque (1882 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque’s work is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso.
Here are his paintings for Le Havre (Normandy).
William Parrot (1813-1869) was a British painter, draughtsman and printmaker of the Romanticism movement. William Parrott travelled and painted in Italy, France and mostly in the United Kingdom.
Almost nothing is known about this artist (even his year of death is not well known). Here are his paintings for Honfleur, Normandy.
Charles Pecrus was born in the Centre of France (Limoges) but was quickly discovered and moved to Paris to study art.
Napoleon III even bought one of his paintings. Here is one painting of his we found which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
George Braque (1882 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque’s work is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso.
Here are his paintings for Dieppe and nearby Varengeville (Normandy).
Charles Pecrus was born in the Centre of France (Limoges) but was quickly discovered and moved to Paris to study art. Napoleon III even bought one of his paintings.
Here are some of his works dealing with Deauville and closeby Villers-sur-Mer.
Albert Lebourg (1849 – 1928), birth name Albert-Marie Lebourg, also called Albert-Charles Lebourg and Charles Albert Lebourg, was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l’Ecole de Rouen). Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime.
Albert Lebourg spent time in Rouen, Normandy, Algeria and The Netherlands. Here is one painting of his he made close to Deauville; Villers-sur-Mer
Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray (1820 – 1884) has been called the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations, his instruction of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making.
He was an important contributor to the development of the wax paper negative. Gustave Le Gray was born in 1820 in Villiers-le-Bel, Val-d’Oise. He was originally trained as a painter, studying under François-Édouard Picot and Paul Delaroche. He lived in Italy between 1843-1846 and painted portraits and scenes of the countryside. Le Gray exhibited his paintings at the salon in 1848 and 1853. He then crossed over to photography in the early years of its development.
He was a successful portrait photographer, capturing figures such as Napoleon III and Edward VII. He also became famous for his seascapes, or marine. He spent 20 years in Cairo, Egypt, but there are few works from this period.
Here is one of his photos he made in Deauville, Normandy.
Conrad Kickert, was a self-taught painter, an art critic and a Dutch art collector.
Between 1903 and 1910, he worked in Dombourg with, in particular, Jan Toorop and in Bergen. He was one of the first cubists in the Netherlands. In 1910, he founded the Modern Art Circle in Amsterdam, together with Piet Mondriaan, Jan Sluyters and Jan Toorop.
Here is one painting of his he made outside of Deauville, in Blonville-sur-Mer.
Paul Huet was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. He met the English painter Richard Parkes Bonington. Bonington’s example influenced Huet to reject neoclassicism and instead paint landscapes based on close observation of nature.
Huet’s works, which include oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs, are Romantic in feeling.
Here is one painting he made outside of Deauville, in Villers-sur-Mers.
Gustave Caillebotte (1848 – 1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Caillebotte was known for his early interest in photography as an art form.
Caillebotte earned a law degree in 1868 and a license to practice law in 1870, and he also was an engineer. Shortly after his education, he was drafted to fight in the Franco-Prussian war, and served from July 1870 to March 1871 in the Garde Nationale Mobile de la Seine.
Here are his paintings for the surrounding of Deauville in Normandy.
Felix Thorigny (1824, Caen – 1870, Paris) was a French master draughtsman, veduta painter and landscape painter. He worked extensively in Paris and London. Not much else is known about this artist.
Here are some of his works we found dealing with Saint-Aubin-de-Cretot, a village close to Caudebec-en-Caux (now called Rives-en-Seine).
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot was a French painter of the Realism movement. He travelled extensively between France and Italy. Although he did paint in a few cities in Normandy, most of his works centers around Italy.
Here is one of his works he painted in Jumieges, a town close to Caudebec-en-Caux (now known as Rives-en-Seine), Normandy.
Louis-Etienne Timmermans (1846 – 1910) was a Belgian painter, specialized in marine paintings and landscapes. He was a pupil of the Academie de Bruxelles and the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris.
Timmermans worked mostly in France, painting small coastal harbours, which he painted with a precise realism.
He died in 1910 in Paris. Not much else is known about him. Here are his works for Langrune-sur-Mer, a town close to Caen, Normandy.
Paul Huet was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. He met the English painter Richard Parkes Bonington. Bonington’s example influenced Huet to reject neoclassicism and instead paint landscapes based on close observation of nature.
Huet’s works, which include oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs, are Romantic in feeling.
Here is one painting he made outside of Caen, in Dives-sur-Mers.
Paul-Elie Gernez born in Onnaing on January 27, 1888 and died in Honfleur on September 6, 1948 is a French painter, watercolourist, engraver and illustrator.
Here is one of his works he made outside of Caen, in Ouistreham, Normandy.
Raoul Dufy (1877 – 1953) was a French painter in the Fauvism, Impressionism, Modernism and Cubism movements. He was born in Le Havre where he studied arts in the local school. He (and his younger brother Jean Dufy) both painted a lot in Normandy.
He went to school in Le Havre and there became a longlife friend of fellow artist Othon Friesz. Here is one of his paintings he made in Nonant, a village close to Bayeux, Normandy.
Emily Maria Eardley Childers, known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century. She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers’s early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890.
After her father’s 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father’s social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam.
Here is one of her works for Arromanches, a town located close to Bayeux, Normandy.
James Webb was a British painter specialising in marine views and landscapes. He was born in a family of artists. His father Archibald Webb and his brother Byron Webb were also noted painters.
He lived all his life in Chelsea, London. Here are his works for Honfleur, Normandy.
Edward Alexander Wadsworth was an English artist, most famous for his close association with Vorticism. He painted, often in tempera, coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life. He was also an engraver on wood and copper. In the First World War he was involved in transferring dazzle camouflage designs onto ships for the Royal Navy, and after the war he continued to paint nautical themes.
Here are his works for Honfleur, Normandy.
Felix Edouard Vallotton was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style.
Here are his many works for Honfleur, Normandy.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, known contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
Here are his paintings he made in Honfleur, Normandy.
Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style. He started training as an architect but quickly decided he wanted to be an artist.
Here is 1 of his paintings he made in Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.”
Here is one painting of his we found which he made in Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy.
