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Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861 – 1942) was a French artist, largely self-taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris.
Blanche was born in Paris. His father, whose name he shared, was a successful psychiatrist who ran a fashionable clinic, and he was brought up in the rich Parisian neighborhood of Passy in a house that had belonged to the Princesse de Lamballe.
Although Blanche received some instruction in painting from Henri Gervex, he may be regarded as self-taught. He became a very successful portrait painter, with a style derived from 18th-century English painters such as Thomas Gainsborough as well as Edouard Manet and John Singer Sargent. He worked in London, where he spent time from 1870 on, as well as Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. One of his closest friends was Marcel Proust, who helped edit several of Blanche’s publications.
Blanche died at his home in Offranville-en-Caux, Normandy (a suburb of Dieppe) on 30 September 1942.
Click here to read Blanche’s full bio on Wikipedia.
Blanche mostly painted in Paris and London, and only painted in Dieppe when he went to Normandy.
- Dieppe (and Offranville)
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