Veules-Les-Roses

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 Signac

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Signac, Paul

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

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Peploe, Samuel

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

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Michallon, Achille-Etna

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

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Lebourg, Albert

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.

William Callow

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Callow, William

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

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Butler, Theodore Earl

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.

Frank Myers Boggs

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Boggs, Frank Myers

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.

Milly Childers

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Childers, Milly

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.

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Veules-Les-Roses – Tips

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 …

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Veules-Les-Roses village

Veules-Les-Roses – Introduction

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 …

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