West

The West coast of France, including most of the North Sea coast line and the biggest portion of the Atlantic Coast. Home of the famous Normandy and Brittany regions.

Georges Albert Cyr

Le Havre – The Artists – Cyr, Georges Albert

January 31, 2022 / ° Artists, Le Havre, Normandy, West

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.

Antoine Vollon

Dieppe – The Artists – Vollon, Antoine

January 31, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Antoine Vollon (1833 – 1900) was a French realist artist, best known as a painter of still lifes, landscapes, and figures.

During his lifetime, Vollon was a successful celebrity, enjoyed an excellent reputation, and was called a “painter’s painter”.

Here are his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Felix Vallotton

Dieppe – The Artists – Vallotton, Felix

February 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

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.

Here are his paintings he made in Dieppe and surroundings in Normandy.

William Turner

Dieppe – The Artists – Turner, William

April 5, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Joseph Mallord William Turner, known contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.

Here are his works for Dieppe, Normandy.

Louis Etienne Timmermans

Dieppe – The Artists – Timmermans, Louis-Etienne

January 25, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

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 are his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Elisee Maclet

Dieppe – The Artists – Maclet, Elisee

January 24, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

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 are his many paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Georges William Thornley

Dieppe – The Artists – Thornley, Georges William

January 21, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

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.

Here is the 1 painting of his we found of Dieppe, Normandy.

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield

Dieppe – The Artists – Stanfield, Clarkson Frederick

January 19, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

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 are his works for Dieppe, Normandy.

Matthew Smith

Dieppe – The Artists – Smith, Matthew Arnold Bracy

February 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (1879 – 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape.

Smith studied under Henri Matisse in Paris and acquired an interest in Fauvism.

During World War I, he was wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele.

Here are his paintings for Dieppe and suburb Varengeville.

Walter Richard Sickert

Dieppe – The Artists – Sickert, Walter Richard – Part 3

February 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Walter Richard Sickert RA RBA (1860 – 1942) was a British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century.

In the late 1880s he spent much of his time in France, especially in Dieppe, which he first visited in mid-1885, and where his mistress, and possibly his illegitimate son, lived.

Here is Part 3 of 3 of his paintings he made in the Dieppe suburbs, Normandy (Part 1&2 deals with Dieppe).

Walter Richard Sickert

Dieppe – The Artists – Sickert, Walter Richard – Part 2

January 17, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Walter Richard Sickert RA RBA (1860 – 1942) was a British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century.

In the late 1880s he spent much of his time in France, especially in Dieppe, which he first visited in mid-1885, and where his mistress, and possibly his illegitimate son, lived.

Here is Part 2 of 3 of his MANY paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy (Part 3 deals with the Dieppe suburbs).

Walter Richard Sickert

Dieppe – The Artists – Sickert, Walter Richard – Part 1

January 17, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Walter Richard Sickert RA RBA (1860 – 1942) was a British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century.

In the late 1880s he spent much of his time in France, especially in Dieppe, which he first visited in mid-1885, and where his mistress, and possibly his illegitimate son, lived.

Here is Part 1 of 3 of his MANY paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy (Part 3 deals with the Dieppe suburbs).

David Roberts

Dieppe – The Artists – Roberts, David

January 12, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

David Roberts was a Scottish painter. He started as a decorator and house painter, but got an interest in paintings. He travelled extensively in the Middle East, and to reach the Middle East he travelled through France.

Here are his works for Dieppe, Normandy.

Samuel Prout

Dieppe – The Artists – Prout, Samuel

January 10, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Samuel Prout was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. He was one of the first to use lithography. He established his reputation with street scenes.

At the time of his death there was hardly a place in France, Germany, Italy (especially Venice) or the Netherlands where his face had not been seen searching for antique gables and sculptured pieces of stone.

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

Camille Pissarro

Dieppe – The Artists – Pissarro, Camille

March 23, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

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

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

William Edward Norton

Dieppe – The Artists – Norton, William Edward

December 24, 2021 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

William Edward Norton (1843 – 1912) was an American painter, born to a family of Bostonian shipbuilders.

After his sea service as a young man, he enrolled at both Harvard Medical School and the Lowell Institute. At Lowell, Norton developed a strong interest in art and began studying with George Inness, whose own poetic style deeply influenced the young artist.

Here are his works for Dieppe, Normandy.

Jules Archille Noel

Dieppe – The Artists – Noel, Jules Achille

December 23, 2021 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

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 his works for Dieppe, Normandy.

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