Henry E. Burel

Dieppe – The Artists – Burel, Henry E.

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

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

Henry E. Burel
Henry E. Burel

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Henry E. Burel is the artist’s signature of Henri Armand Emile Burel, French painter, poet and illustrator born and died in Fecamp (1883 – 1967). He was at the same time active in Fecamp in the field of drying , packaging and trading of cod.

Henry E. Burel married Blanche Alice Pope on October 17, 1908 in Fecamp, and his two children were born there.

F. Bogers, a soldier based during the First World War in Fecamp where the Belgian army set up an instruction camp, evokes in the house – whose master of the place devotes “a real cult to Monet and Sisley” and touches on poetry in the violin of Ingres – a place frequented by artists and writers, Ernest Hemingway staying there in April 1917 and, in friendly complicity, amusing himself there recomposing poems by Burel in English.

Died March 4, 1967, Henry E. Burel is buried in the cemetery of Fecamp.

You can read more of Henry E. Burel’s bio on Wikipedia (in French only).

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1949 - Henry E. Burel - The port of Dieppe
1949 – Henry E. Burel – The port of Dieppe
???? - Henry E. Burel - Port of Dieppe
???? – Henry E. Burel – Port of Dieppe

Varengeville-sur-Mer

The village of Varengeville-sur-Mer (population: 1,000) lies next to Pourville, a bit further East from Dieppe along the coast. It was a popular place for artists.

???? - Henry E. Burel - The Coast of Varengeville
???? – Henry E. Burel – The Coast of Varengeville
???? - Henry E. Burel - Varengeville church
???? – Henry E. Burel – Varengeville church

Henry Burel painted mostly in Normandy, particularly Fecamp, but he did paint in several other places. Here is the list (a link “⇠” to is specific works will appear below when published):

Dieppe in Normandy was a popular place for artists to come and apply their art. Here is a list, non exhaustive, of the artists that painted in Dieppe.

A link (“⇠”) to the artist’s works will appear when published (a “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Dieppe, instead worked in nearby villages):

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