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The artists and their paintings who were active in France and born before 1900.

Henri Le Sidaner

Le Havre – The Artists – Le Sidaner, Henri

December 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Le Havre, Normandy, West

Henri Eugene Augustin Le Sidaner (1862 – 1939) who was a contemporary of the Post-impressionists, was an intimist painter known for his paintings of domestic interiors and quiet street scenes. His style contained elements of impressionism with the influences of Edouard Manet, Monet and of the Pointillists discernible in his work.

Le Sidaner’s paintings and pastels were widely collected throughout his career. His seductive views of the gardens he created in the ruins of the medieval fortress at Gerberoy, with their recently vacated tables dappled in sunlight and overhung by roses, have cemented his reputation as a unique artist who does not fit easily into an art movement .

Here are his paintings he made in Harfleur, a suburb of Le Havre, Normandy.

Henri Matisse

Artist: Matisse, Henri

December 5, 2022 / ° Artists

Henri Emile Benoit Matisse (1869 – 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

Adrien Dauzats

Le Havre – The Artists – Dauzats, Adrien

December 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Le Havre, Normandy, West

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.

Georges Braque

Le Havre – The Artists – Braque, Georges

December 2, 2022 / ° Artists, Le Havre, Normandy, West

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 Parrott

Honfleur – The Artists – Parrott, William

December 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Honfleur, Normandy, West

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.

Georges Braque

Dieppe – The Artists – Braque, Georges

November 29, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

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).

Thomas Matthews Rooke

Artist: Rooke, Thomas Matthews

November 25, 2022 / ° Artists

Thomas Matthews Rooke (1842 – 1942) was a British watercolourist. He worked as a designer, as an assistant to other artists, and was commissioned by John Ruskin to make architectural drawings.

Albert Lebourg

Deauville – The Artists – Lebourg, Albert

December 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Deauville, Normandy, West

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

Gustave Le Gray

Deauville – The Artists – Le Gray, Gustave

December 12, 2022 / ° Artists, Deauville, Normandy, West

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 Theodore Kickert

Deauville – The Artists – Kickert, Conrad Theodore

December 12, 2022 / ° Artists, Deauville, Normandy, West

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

Deauville – The Artists – Huet, Paul

December 12, 2022 / ° Artists, Deauville, Normandy, West

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

Deauville – The Artists – Caillebotte, Gustave

December 12, 2022 / ° Artists, Deauville, Normandy, West

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.

William Parrott

Artist: Parrott, William

November 20, 2022 / ° Artists

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).

Felix Thorigny

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Thorigny, Felix

November 18, 2022 / ° Artists, Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandy, West

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).

Louis-Etienne Timmermans

Caen – The Artists – Timmermans, Louis-Etienne

November 16, 2022 / ° Artists, Caen, Normandy, West

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

Caen – The Artists – Huet, Paul

November 15, 2022 / ° Artists, Caen, Normandy, West

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

Caen – The Artists – Gernez, Paul-Elie

November 14, 2022 / ° Artists, Caen, Normandy, West

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

Bayeux – The Artists – Dufy, Raoul

November 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Bayeux, Normandy, West

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.

Milly Childers

Bayeux – The Artists – Childers, Milly

November 10, 2022 / ° Artists, Bayeux, Normandy, West

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

Honfleur – The Artists – Webb, James

November 9, 2022 / ° Artists, Honfleur, Normandy, West

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 Wadsworth

Honfleur – The Artists – Wadsworth, Edward

November 8, 2022 / ° Artists, Honfleur, Normandy, West

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.

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