Honfleur – The Artists – Guerard, Henri
This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Honfleur. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.
Henri Charles Guerard (1846 – 1897) was a French painter, engraver, lithographer and printer. He was born and died in Paris.
He married in 1879 to Eva Gonzales, painter, student, model and friend of Monet. Eva left many of her portraits to her husband. She dies at the age of 36 of an embolism following the delivery of her son (On September 17, 1888, he married his sister-in-law Jeanne Gonzales (1852-1924), also a painter, as a second wife.)
The couple went to the Saint-Simeon farm in Honfleur, where they found their painter friends: Felix Bracquemond, Felix Buhot, Cezanne, Adolphe-Felix Cals, Jules Cheret, Ernest Cabaner, Norbert Goeneutte.
Not much else is known about this artist.
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Guerard did not paint much, but he did paint in the following places in France (a link “⇠” to his works will appear below when published):
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comtee
- Dijon
- Hauts-de-France
- Calais
- Normandy
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
Honfleur was (and is) a very picturesque town, so it saw many artists capturing the beauty of this very scenic town. The reason it has so many tourists is obvious…. it’s very pretty. Here are some of the artists that have come to apply their art in the town (a link, symbolized by a “⇠“, to the artist’s works will appear when published. A “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Honfleur but instead worked outside of Honfleur in a nearby town).
- 🇺🇸 Boggs, Frank Myers ⇠
- 🇷🇺 Bogolyubov, Alexey (Alexei) ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Bonington, Richard Parkes ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene-Louis ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Bruce, Mary Louisa, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Bruelle, Gaston ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Burel, Henry E. ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Burgess Jr, John ⇠
- 🇺🇸 Butler, Theodore Earl ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Callow, William ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cooke, Edward William ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Courbet, Gustave ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Cyr, Georges Albert ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Daubigny, Charles-Francois ⇠
- 🇫🇷 de Saint-Delis, Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 de Saint-Delis, Rene ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Dibdin, Thomas Colman ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Dubourg, Louis-Alexandre ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Dufy, Jean ⇠
- 🇮🇪 Dunlop, Ronald Ossory ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Friesz, Othon ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Garneray, Ambroise Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Gernez, Paul-Elie ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Goeneutte, Norbert ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Gudin, Theodore ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Guerard, Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Hervier, Louis Adolphe ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Huet, Paul ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Isabey, Eugene ⇠
- 🇳🇱 Jongkind, Johan ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Kay, James ⇠
- 🇳🇱 Kickert, Conrad Theodore ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Le Gray, Gustave ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Le Sidaner, Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Lebourg, Albert ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Lee-Hankey, William ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Leprince, Auguste-Xavier ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Luce, Maximilien ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Maclet, Elisee ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Madelain, Gustave ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Manzana-Pissarro, Georges Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Marquet, Albert
- 🇫🇷 Mathon, Emile Louis
- 🇫🇷 Monet, Claude
- 🇫🇷 Mozin, Charles Louis
- 🇺🇸 Norton, William Edward
- 🇫🇷 Pecrus, Charles Francois
- 🇫🇷 Petitjean, Edmond Marie
- 🇫🇷 Roullet, Gaston
- 🇬🇧 Schafer, Henry Thomas
- 🇫🇷 Seurat, Georges
- 🇫🇷 Signac, Paul
- 🇬🇧 Stanfield, Clarkson Frederick
- 🇧🇪 Stevens, Alfred
- 🇳🇱 Ten Cate, Siebe Johannes
- 🇧🇪 Timmermans, Louis-Etienne
- 🇫🇷 Truffaut, Fernand-Fortune
- 🇬🇧 Turner, William
- 🇨🇭 Vallotton, Felix
- 🇬🇧 Wadsworth, Edward
- 🇬🇧 Webb, James
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