This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Cherbourg. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

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.
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Timmermans painted in several places in France, and more notably in Normandy. These are the places he painted (a link “⇠” to his works will appear below when published):
- Brittany
- Camaret
- Landerneau
- Lorient
- Saint-Servan
- Trinite-sur-Mer
- Normandy
Here are the artists we found who worked in Cherbourg. A link “⇠” will show when that artist’s works has been published on our site. A “*” indicates that the artist did not work in Cherbourg itself, instead worked in nearby places.
- 🇺🇸 Boggs, Frank Myers * ⇠
- 🇷🇺 Bogolyubov, Alexey (Alexei) * ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Bonington, Richard Parkes ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene-Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Bourgeois, Constant ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Bruce, Mary Louisa, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Crepin, Louis-Philippe ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Friesz, Othon ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Garneray, Ambroise Louis ⇠
- 🇷🇺 Gritsenko, Nikolai ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Gudin, Theodore ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Le Gray, Gustave ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Leitch, Richard Principal ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Mathon, Emile-Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Matisse, Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Mozin, Charles Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Noel, Jules Achille ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Signac, Paul ⇠
- 🇧🇪 Timmermans, Louis-Etienne ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Turner, William * ⇠
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