The small fishing city that is also the home of the famous Benedictine liqueur.
Jules Achille Noel, born Louis Assez Noel (1815-1881) was a French landscape and maritime painter who worked primarily in Brittany and Normandy.
His style was compared to Eugene Isabey and he won the praise of Baudelaire.
Here are paintings of his which he made in Fecamp, 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.
Theodore Alexander Weber (1838 – 1907) was born in Leipzig, Germany and died in Paris, France. He was a German painter who took the French nationality in 1878.
Here are his paintings he made in Fecamp, 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 is the 1 painting of his we found that he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793 – 1867) was a prominent English painter (often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield) who was best known for his large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes. He was the father of the painter George Clarkson Stanfield and the composer Francis Stanfield.
Until his death he contributed a long series of powerful and highly popular works to the Academy, both of marine subjects and landscapes from his travels at home and in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Ireland.
Here is the one painting of his we found which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
William Frome Smallwood (1806 – 1834) was a British artist who made several paintings in France and the United Kingdom.
However, almost nothing else is known about this artist.
Here are his paintings for Fecamp, 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 are his works for Fecamp, Normandy.
Henry Thomas Schafer, aka Henry Thomas Schäfer, was a British painter who travelled extensively in Europe. But very little is known about this artist.
He painted in quite a few places in Normandy. Here are his paintings he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (1851 – 1934) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector. A friend of Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh.
Marie Anatole Gaston Roullet (1847 – 1925), is a French painter and illustrator, appointed official painter of the Colonies and the Navy in 1885.
Roullet was a pupil of Jules Noel, whose daughter, Marie-Caroline, he married in 1874.
Appointed painter to the Navy and the departments of the Colonies, Roullet took part in the military campaigns of Tonkin in 1885.
Here are his paintings for Fecamp, 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.”
Renoir to our knowledge did not paint in Fecamp itself, but in the nearby village of Yport. Here are his paintings.
Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
He painted quite a few paintings in Normandy. He did not work in Fecamp itself, instead painted in the nearby Petites-Dalles.
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
In 1874, she joined the Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.
Morisot was married to Eugene Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague Edouard Manet. Morisot died on March 2, 1895, in Paris, of pneumonia.
Here is her work for Fecamp and nearby Petites-Dalles in Normandy
Claude Monet is without any doubt the most famous impressionist painter. He started the movement, and he was the master of it.
Although he was born in Paris, France (and died in Giverny, Normandy, France), his heart was Normandy, particularly the Normandy coastline. His family moved to Le Havre in 1845 where his father wanted him to join the family ship-chandling business, but instead he decided to become an artist.
Here are his works for Fecamp and its surroundings (Yport, Grainval and Les Petites-Dalles)
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.
Here is the one painting of his we found which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Arthur Joseph Meadows (1843 – 1907) was a British painter of coastal scenes and marines who was greatly influenced by Clarkson Stanfield. Arthur Joseph is generally considered to be the best of the Meadows family of marine artists, he was the younger brother of James Edwin Meadows Jnr. and the son of James Meadows Snr.
Here is the 1 painting of his we found which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer. He painted quite a few paintings in Normandy.
Here are his paintings for Yport, close town to Fecamp in Normandy.
Albert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.
He painted many paintings throughout Europe, including many of the Normandy coast.
Here are his paintings he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Jules Emile Elisee Maclet (1881–1962) was a French Impressionist painter, particularly known for his views of Montmartre.
Maclet was born the son of a gardener and a laundress at Lihons in the Santerre region in Picardy. His family was poor and he began work very young as an assistant to his father. Picardy is renowned for its roses, and Maclet used to say that he was born among cabbages and roses. His artistic talent became evident very early. The parish priest, Father Delval, was also an amateur painter, and often on fine Sundays he took the boy out to sketch and paint in the countryside.
Here is the 1 painting of his we found that he made in Fecamp, 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 his many works for Fecamp and surrounding Yport, Les Petites-Dalles and Grainval.
Emile-Andre Letellier (1833 – 1893) was a French photographer who worked almost exclusively in Normandy, France.
He became the Director of the monthly “Union photographique de France” magazine which was based in Le Havre, Normandy.
Here are the photos he made in Fecamp and its surrounding.
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (1838 – 1904) was a French painter of the 19th century. He essentially specialized in landscape paintings. His father, Karl Joseph Kuwasseg, was an Austrian born in Trieste on March 16, 1802, and also a renowned painter. His father left for Paris, and took French nationality. He died in Paris in January 1877.
Here are his works for Fecamp and Yport, 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 are his paintings for Fecamp and Yport in Normandy.
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 the 1 drawing of his he made in Fecamp which we found.
