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 his photos he made in Le Havre and many of its surroundings.

Georges Albert Cyr (1880 – 1964) is a Lebanese painter of French origin. In 1934, following a personal tragedy, he decided to leave France and tour the Middle East and the Far East. Having spent a few weeks in Beirut, he fell in love with the city.

He spent 27 years living in Lebanon. Cyr was not only a painter. He also worked with mosaics, ceramics, and stained glass. He taught painting and history of art, wrote numerous essays and lectured on the subject. Many see him as the true pioneer of modern art in Lebanon.

Here are his paintings we found which he made in Le Havre, 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 paining of his we found that he made in Le Havre, Normandy.

Hubert Robert (1733 – 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.

He worked extensively in Italy and France. He was a lucky man, since he escape the guillotine due to a clerical error during the French revolution.

Here is the one painting of his we found of Le Havre, 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 his etchings he made of Le Havre, Normandy.

Sir David Young Cameron was a Scottish painter and etcher. Cameron was the son of the Rev. Robert Cameron and was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

As well as becoming well known as an etcher the artist also produced a great many oil paintings and watercolour sketches of landscapes and architectural subjects. Cameron’s earliest known oil painting dates to 1883.

To our knowledge, Cameron did not paint in Le Havre itself, but in 2 of its suburbs, Harfleur and Montivilliers. Here are his works of art.

Gaston Bruelle (1849 – 1884) was a French painter of mostly marine paintings. Bruelle was a student of Jules Noel and exhibited in the “salon de la Societe des Artistes Francais” from 1869 to 1881. He also contributed to the weekly paper “Le Yacht” in 1993 with 8 paintings illustrating the regatas in Argenteuil, Rouen, Le Havre and Trouville.

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 Le Havre, Normandy.

Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783 – 1857) was a French corsair, painter and writer. He was held as prisoner-of-war by the British for eight years.

Here are 5 of his etching he made of Le Havre, and one in Harfleur (suburb of Le Havre), Normandy.

William Raymond Dommersen, also Dommersheusen and Dommersheuzen, was a Dutch/English painter of Land- and Seascapes, Villages and Towns. He signed his work as W or WR Dommersen. Dommersen was born at the end of 1859 in Stratford, West Ham, London as the son of the Anglo / Dutch fine art painter Pieter Cornelis Dommersen and Anna Petronella Synja.

His parents had moved from the Netherlands in 1855 to London, England. Pre 1700 the family came from Dahlheim, near Koblenz, in Germany, so their family name was originally ‘Dommershausen’.

We found one of his paintings he made in Le Havre.

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.

We found one of his paintings dealing with Le Havre.

Georges William Thornley (1857 – 1935) was a French painter and printmaker. He was the son of a Welsh immigrant Morgan Thornley.

He travelled a lot in Normandy and Brittany. He was also know for making lithographs for his fellow artist friends like Claude Monet, Pissarro etc.

We found only one of his paintings of Le Havre.

Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858 – 1908) was a Dutch-Frisian painter in the Impressionist style, who spent most of his working life in France.

His favorite subjects were landscapes, city and harbor views, often populated with figures. Le Havre was one of his favorite locations. Here are the works for Le Havre we’ve been able to find.

Edmond Marie Petitjean (1844 – 1925) was a self-taught French painter; known for landscapes and seascapes. His father was a lawyer and wanted him to follow suit; forcing him to study law despite his artistic talent and sending him to Paris, where he was apprenticed to a notary.

He painted the Salle Doree in the famous Train Blue restaurant in Paris.

He painted in several ports along the Atlantic coast

Alexandre Jean Noel is a French painter and grandfather of the painter Alexis Nicolas Noel. In 1769 he accompanied astronomer Jean Chappe d’Auteroche on his scientific expedition to Baja California to observe the transit of Venus in front of the Sun’s, which he illustrated with a series of drawings depicting their journey.

Here are the paintings we’ve found that he made of Le Havre.

Gustave Madelain (1867 – 1944) was French painter with his own interpretation of French post Impressionism. Madelain showed a number of canvases at Le Havre and at Rouen; though it was naturally in Paris that he had his greatest success.

Despite being known for having painted in Le Havre, we only found one of his paintings of the city.

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 only one of his paintings dealing with Le Havre.

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. However, we found only one painting of his dealing with Le Havre.

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 he made in Le Havre.

Rene de Saint-Delis, 1876 – 1958, was a French painter influenced by the Impressionist movement. He was born in the North of France (Pas-de-Calais) and died in Etretat, Normandy. Here are his works for Le Havre

Henri de Saint-Delis (brother of Rene) was a French painter who never wanted to sell his paintings, and kept them all for himself. The public only discovered his paintings in 1954. He went to school in Le Havre where he befriended several (now) famous painters.

Here are his works we found for Le Havre.

Jules Achille Noël, born Louis Assez Noël (1815-1881) was a French landscape and maritime painter who worked primarily in Brittany and Normandy.

His style was compared to Eugène Isabey and he won the praise of Baudelaire. Here are his works dealing with the city of Le Havre.

Charles-Louis Mozin (1806 – 1862) was born into a family of musicians, Charles-Louis Mozin studied with Xavier Leprince. Primarily a painter and lithographer of coastal landscapes, harbour views and seascapes, he exhibited at the Salons in Paris between 1824 and 1861.

Along with Eugene Isabey and Richard Parkes Bonington, Mozin was one of the first artists to paint landscapes depicting the beach and fishing port of Trouville in Normandy, which he discovered around 1825, and where he settled in 1839.

He also travelled in Germany and Holland, where he frequently exhibited his work between 1840 and 1850. Landscape paintings by Mozin are today in the museums of Amiens, Honfleur, Rouen, Toulon, Trouville, Versailles, and elsewhere, while a number of views of Paris are in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.

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 are his photos he made in the port city of Le Havre, Normandy.