Normandy

The Normandy region, consisting of Upper and Lower Normandy, is one of the famous regions in France. Rich in history dating back to the Viking invasions and the many wars with England, the country side is full of castles, fortresses, hills, forests and of course an interesting coastline.

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Jamieson Alexander

Dieppe – The Artists – Jamieson, Alexander

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 Isabey

Dieppe – The Artists – Isabey, Eugene

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

Dieppe – The Artists – Huet, Paul

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 Hoguet

Dieppe – The Artists – Hoguet, Charles

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.

Louis Adolphe Hervier

Dieppe – The Artists – Hervier, Louis Adolphe

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

Dieppe – The Artists – Guillaumin, Armand

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.

Henri Charles Guerard

Dieppe – The Artists – Guerard, Henri

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.

Sylvia Gosse

Dieppe – The Artists – Gosse, Sylvia

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

Dieppe – The Artists – Gonzales, Eva

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

Dieppe – The Artists – Goeneutte, Norbert

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.

Paul Gauguin

Dieppe – The Artists – Gauguin, Paul

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.

Ambroise Louis Garneray

Dieppe – The Artists – Garneray, Ambroise Louis

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.

Louis-Alexandre Dubourg

Dieppe – The Artists – Dubourg, Louis-Alexandre

Louis-Alexandre Dubourg is a French painter, born and died in Honfleur. He worked as a commercial agent, painting as a serious hobby. It was only after meeting with a professional artist that he decided to paint for a living.

He mostly painted cities in Normandy. Here’s the one work for Dieppe we found.

Lambert Doomer

Dieppe – The Artists – Doomer, Lambert

Lambert Doomer (1624 – 1700) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Doomer was the third of nine children of Herman Doomer (1595–1650) and his wife Baertje Martens, who ran a successful business in ebony-veneer furniture. Lambert was trained as a furniture maker like his father, but seemed to enjoy drawing more than woodworking and he became an artist. It is not known who trained him, but since his father supplied frames for Rembrandt, he probably had access to a teacher within his father’s network. Rembrandt painted portraits of his parents for their 25th wedding anniversary, which was unusual at the time, in 1638.

To finish his education, Lambert traveled to France with Willem Schellinks who was three years younger than he was, in 1646.

Here is the one painting of his we found that he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

William Raymond Dommersen

Dieppe – The Artists – Dommersen, William

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’.

Here are some of his works for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.

Thomas Colman Dibdin

Dieppe – The Artists – Dibdin, Thomas Colman

Thomas Robert Colman Dibdin (1810 – 1893) was an English watercolour artist and teacher. Dibdin was born in Bletchworth, Surrey. He first worked in a post office. He became an artist at the age of 28 and he went to France, Germany and Belgium.

He also did paintings in Gibraltar and India although the latter was created in England based on detailed sketches. In 1845 he published a guide to watercolour painting.

Here are some of his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Theodore Basset de Jolimont

Dieppe – The Artists – de Jolimont, Theodore Basset

François Gabriel Théodore Basset de Jolimont (1787 – 1854) was a French artist, lithographer, painter and antiquary.

Despite his talent and the volume of his work, de Jolimont always struggled with poor fortune.

He made some drawings in Dieppe and in the nearby Mesnieeres-en-Bray. Here they are.

David Davies

Dieppe – The Artists – Davies, David

David Davies (1864 – 1939) was an Australian artist who was associated with the Heidelberg School, the first significant Western art movement in Australia.

In 1932 Davies moved to Looe, Cornwall, England, where he died on 26 March 1939.

He made many paintings in Dieppe, Normandy. Here are many of them.

Charles-Francois Daubigny

Dieppe – The Artists – Daubigny, Charles-Francois

Charles-François Daubigny, French, was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism. He was also a prolific printmaker, mostly in etching but also as one of the main artists to use the cliché verre technique.

Initially Daubigny painted in a traditional style, but this changed after 1843 when he settled in Barbizon to work outside in nature.

Here are the paintings of his we found which he painted in Dieppe, Normandy.

David Cox Sr.

Dieppe – The Artists – Cox Sr, David

David Cox (1783 – 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour.

Here are his works for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.

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