Cherbourg – The Artists – Friesz, Othon
Othon Friesz, a Le Havre born artist and lifelong friend of Raoul Dufy, painted between Normandy and Paris. Here is the one painting we found of his dealing with Cherbourg.
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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.
Cherbourg – The Artists – Crepin, Louis-Philippe
Louis-Philippe Crépin was a French marine painter. Together with Theodore Gudin, he was appointed as one of France’s first two Peintres de la Marine in 1830. His best known painting is “Combat de la frégate française La Bayonnaise contre la frégate anglaise l’Embuscade 14 décembre 1798”, which was commissioned by Napoleon for display at the Tuileries. It was shown at the Salon in 1801. Until 1834, it was hung in the former residence of the Empress at the Château de Saint-Cloud, then was transferred to Versailles by King Louis Philippe I. Here are the paintings he made in Cherbourg.
Cherbourg – The Artists – Overview and Map
Here are all the artists featured on our site that have painted in Cherbourg and its immediate surroundings. There’s a map with one location per artist per city. Use the map to look at that artist’s works of art.
Cherbourg – The Artists – Bruce, Mary Louisa, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine
Mary Louisa Bruce, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine (née Lambton; 1819 – 1898) was the daughter of John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham and his second wife Louisa Elizabeth Lambton (née Grey), daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. She travelled to Canada twice: the first time when her father went to Canada to investigate the Lower Canada Rebellion in 29 May – 1 November 1838. She later returned to Canada with her husband, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, from 1847 to 1853.
An accomplished artist, she studied under John Richard Coke-Smyth, alongside her sister, Lady Emily Augusta, and travel companion, Katherine Ellice. She wrote and illustrated journals and diaries of her international travels.
We found only one of her paintings dealing with Cherbourg.
Cherbourg – The Artists – Bonington, Richard Parkes
Richard Parkes Bonington, a British artist who spent most of his life in France, died early (age 25), but managed to paint many paintings. His Romanticism Landscape style made him a popular painter in his generation.
We found only one of his paintings dealing with Cherbourg.
Cherbourg – The Artists – Boudin, Eugene-Louis
Eugene Boudin is a real Normandy based artist, born and died in Normandy. He was an Impressionist painter and a close friend of Claude Monet. He was the son of a harbour pilot who later went on and set up a picture framing and stationery shop. His son took to the business and later set up his own shop, putting him in contact with many artists. At the age of 22 he started painting.
Here is the one painting we found of his of Cherbourg.
Le Havre – The Artists – Thornley, Georges William
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Ten Cate, Siebe Johannes
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.
Le Havre – The Artists –Petitjean, Edmond Marie
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
Le Havre – The Artists – Noel, Alexandre Jean
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Madelain, Gustave
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Luce, Maximilien
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Lee-Hankey, William
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Kay, James
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – de Saint-Delis, Rene
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
Le Havre – The Artists – de Saint-Delis, Henri
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Noel, Jules Achille
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Mozin, Charles Louis
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Le Gray, Gustave
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.
Le Havre – The Artists – Crepin, Louis-Philippe
Louis-Philippe Crépin was a French marine painter. Together with Théodore Gudin, he was appointed as one of France’s first two Peintres de la Marine in 1830.
He studied marine painting with Joseph Vernet and landscapes with Hubert Robert. Before that, he had been a sailor with four years of experience as a helmsman and gabier (a seaman in charge of the sails). He had his first exhibit at the Paris in 1796 with “La sortie du port de Brest”. He would hold showings there intermittently until 1835.
We found one of his works of Le Havre
Paimpol – Pointe de Guilben
The Pointe de Guilben is a peninsula at the East of Paimpol, Brittany. It’s a great place for a hike or picnic. Several small and secluded beaches can be found there.
Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Overview and Map
Here are all the artists featured on our site that have painted in Caudebec-en-Caux in Normandy. There’s a map with one location per artist per city.
Use the map to look at all that artist’s works of art.
Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Dufy, Raoul
Raoul Dufy (1877 – 1953) was a French painter in the Fauvism, Impressionism, Modernism and Cubism movements.
He was born in Le Havre where he studied arts in the local school. He (and his younger brother Jean Dufy) both painted a lot in Normandy. He went to school in Le Havre and there became a longlife friend of fellow artist Othon Friesz.
We did find only one of his paintings dealing with Caudebec-en-Caux.