The artists and their paintings who were active in France and born before 1900.
Maximilien Luce (1858 – 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism.
We found several of his paintings dealing with Dieppe, Normandy.
Gustave Loiseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets. However he did paint a lot in Normandy.
Here are many of his works he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
Luigi Loir, a French painter and lithographer, born in Austria. He amongst other illustrated one of Jules Verne’s book.
Here is one of his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy we found;
Leon-Jules Lemaître (1850 – 1905) is a French painter from the School of Rouen.
A student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he painted mainly urban scenes in Paris or Rouen.
Not much else is known about this artist. Here are his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
William Lee Hankey was a British painter and book illustrator. He specialised in landscapes, character studies and portraits of pastoral life, particularly in studies of mothers with young children.
He spent quite some time painting in Normandy and Brittany. Here are many of his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
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 are some of his many works he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles (1818 – 1882) was a French painter and photographer. Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles was born in Paris, of an ancient noble family from Normandy.
He worked mainly on cathedrals in Chartres, Strasbourg, Reims and near Paris. Cameras capable of taking large photographs, sized up to 51 cm by 74 cm, were used.
Here are his photos for the city of Dieppe, Normandy (and one suburb).
Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (first name often spelled Constantin- 1861 – 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Konstantin was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as “peasants of Vladimir Gubernia”. His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin’s grandfather. Konstantin’s older brother Sergei Korovin was a notable realist painter. Konstantin’s relative Illarion Pryanishnikov was also a prominent painter of the time and a teacher at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Here is the one painting of his we found which he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
James Kay was a Scottish artist notable for his paintings of the landscapes and shipping. Born on the Isle of Arran, Kay spent much of his working life with a studio in Glasgow and living at Portincaple on Loch Long in Argyll and Bute. He was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 1906 and to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1938. He had one daughter, artist Violet McNeish Kay.
He spent time painting in Normandy. Here are his paintings for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.
Johan Barthold Jongkind was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism.
Here is the only painting of his we found which he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
Alexander Jamieson (1873 – 1937) was born in Glasgow and trained at the Haldane Academy (Glasgow School of Art) in the mid- 1890s. In 1898, he won a scholarship to study for a further year in Paris where, in the progressive atmosphere of contemporary French painting, his style began to develop a broad Impressionistic character.
Here are his paintings he made in Dieppe and nearby Martin-Eglise in Normandy.
Eugene Louis Gabriel Isabey was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style. He was born to Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a well known painter who enjoyed the patronage of the Imperial Family.
Originally, he wanted to be a sailor, but his father insisted that he study painting; a turnabout from the usual situation where the family opposes an artistic career in favor of something more practical.
He painted extensively in Normandy. Here are his paintings for Dieppe and surrounding Varengeville.
Paul Huet was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. He met the English painter Richard Parkes Bonington whose 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 the one painting of his we found of Dieppe and two in the nearby Arques-la-Bataille, Normandy.
Charles Hoquet (1821 – 1870), although born and died in Berlin, Germany, as a Huguenot, belonged to the French colony in Berlin and is considered a French painter.
He was a student of the German marine painter Wilhelm Krausse. He joined the studio of Eugene Ciceri the following year in Paris. In 1841 he was a student of Eugene Isabey.
Here are his works for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.
Adolphe Hervier, in full: Louis-Henri-Victor-Jules-François-Adolphe Hervier was a French painter and engraver, known for his rural genre scenes.
Over his lifetime, his style changed from a strict Romanticism to an early type of Impressionism.
He was the son of a painter.Despite being Parisian, his favorite painting locations were in Normandy.
Here are his works for Dieppe, Normandy.
Armand Guillaumin (1841 – 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle’s lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons. He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Academie Suisse in 1861. There, he met Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro with whom he maintained lifelong friendships.
Here is the one painting of his we found which he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
Jacques Guiaud (1810 – 1876) was a French painter and engraver; known for landscapes, cityscapes, historical scenes and assorted watercolors.
Here is one of his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
Henri Charles Guerard (1846 – 1897) was a French painter, engraver, lithographer and printer. He was born and died in Paris.
He married in 1879 to Eva Gonzales, painter, student, model and friend of Manet.
Not much else is known about this artist.
Here are some of his many paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881 – 1968) was an English painter and printmaker. She ran an art school with the painter Walter Sickert.
Eye cataracts put an end to her painting in 1961, and she died in 1968.
She painted mostly in Dieppe, Normandy; Here are many of her works.
Eva Gonzales (1849 – 1883) was a French Impressionist painter. She was born in Paris and became introduced to sophisticated literary and art circles at an early age by her father, writer Emmanuel Gonzales.
Here are her works for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.
Norbert Goeneutte was a Paris born painter/etcher, who started out working in a lawyer’s office, but this did not suit him. He then started a life as a painter, travelling through Europe.
Here are some of his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia.
Here are his works for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.
Achille Etna Michallon (1796–1822) was a French painter. Michallon was the son of the sculptor Claude Michallon and nephew of the sculptor Guillaume Francin. He travelled to Italy in 1818 and remained there for over two years.
Before he had much time to develop what he had learned however, he died at the age of 25 of pneumonia.
Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783 – 1857) was a French corsair, painter and writer. He served under Robert Surcouf and Jean-Marie Dutertre, and was held as prisoner-of-war by the British for eight years after being captured before being repatriated at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, continuing his career as a painter until his death in 1857.
He was in fact the first Peintre de la Marine (“official painter of the Navy”).
Here are his works for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.
