Veules-les-Roses is one of Normandy’s best kept secrets. Known mostly only to locals, the beautiful village has France’s smallest river, roses everywhere and watermills.
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.
Signac did not paint in Veules-les-Roses itself, instead he painted in the nearby town of Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
Samuel John Peploe (1871 – 1935) was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists. The other colourists were John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter.
Peploe was strongly influenced by French painting throughout his life. Here is the one painting of his we found which he made in Veules-les-Roses, 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.
No our knowledge, he did not paint in Veules-les-Roses itself, but in nearby Saint-valery-en-Caux/
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.
Lebourg did not paint in Veules-les-Roses itself, instead painted nearby in Saint-Valery and Veulettes.
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.
He did not paint in Veules-les-Roses, but instead painted in the nearby Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Normandy.
Nikolay Nikolayevich Gritsenko was a Russian painter who specialized in maritime art and seascapes. Born in Russia, he died in France. He joined the Russian Navy, saw and painted the world.
He did not paint in Veules-les-Roses itself, but in the nearby Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
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.
He was in fact the first Peintre de la Marine.
He did not paint in Veules-les-Roses, but close by in Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
William Callow was an English landscape painter, engraver and water colourist. He travelled extensively in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, had a large number of pupils, and enjoyed favour with the royal family.
Here is his 1 painting we found which me made outside of Veules-les-Roses in the town of Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
Theodore Earl Butler, (1861–1936) was an American impressionist painter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Paris to study art. He befriended Claude Monet in Giverny, and married his stepdaughter, Suzanne Hoschedé. After her death he married her sister, Marthe Hoschede. Butler was a founding member of the Society of Independent Artists.
Here are his works for Veules-les-Roses in Normandy.
Russian artist Alexey (Alexei) Bogolyubov painted all over the world, but many of his works were centered along the Normandy coastlines.
Here are his paintings he made in Veules-les-Roses and its surroundings in Normany.
Frank Boggs was an American (and later French) painter (born in the USA, died in France). He studied art in Paris, and travelled between France (Normandy), The Netherlands, Italy and Belgium. He naturelized to French citizenship. He is buried next to his artist son in Paris.
Here is the 1 painting of his we found, not in Veules-les-Roses but closeby in Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
Emily Maria Eardley Childers, aka 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 are her paintings for Veules-les-Roses, Normandy.
Transport Getting There Ferry: Closest ferry from the UK arrives regularly at Dieppe. Within Veules-Les-Roses Veules-Les-Roses is so small you’ll spend more time trying to park than you would walk from one end to the other. Restaurants There are several reasonable, even good, restaurants in the village. The old coach inn, the Douce France, has a …
Veules-Les-Roses in Upper Normandy is one of the best kept secrets for most tourists, especially the foreign ones, but as a place to visit, it is most interesting and rewarding. It’s a very small village (some 600 inhabitants) that is foremost a beautiful, scenic and very photogenic village. Although notable visitors like Victor Hugo stayed here, you really …
