Edouard Adam

Le Havre – The Artists – Adam, Edouard-Marie

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

Edouard-Marie Adam (1847-1929), a French painter who lived a big part of his life in Le Havre (he moved there with his English wife in 1873), specialized in painting ships.

He became famous and was asked by many merchant marine companies and the French Navy to make paintings of their ships. Since most of his paintings were about ships, here are only a very few of them.

You can read more about him, in French only, on Wikipedia, click here to read his bio.

NOTE: Click on any painting below for a bigger version (no new window will open).

NOTE2: The painting above on this page is 1879 Edouard Adam – Steamship Charles Howard off Le Havre

NOTE: A black box like this one, means that there is an explanation text about today’s situation of the painting above it.
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1881 Edouard Adam - The Barque Ifafa under Full Sail Leaving Le Havre
1881 Edouard Adam – The Barque Ifafa under Full Sail Leaving Le Havre

NOTE: Even today, you will regularly see tall sailing ships, 3, 4 or even 5 masts, arrive at Le Havre.

1884 Edouard Adam - The American Ship Olive S Southard of San Francisco in French Waters off Le Havre
1884 Edouard Adam – The American Ship Olive S Southard of San Francisco in French Waters off Le Havre
1885 Edouard Adam - The John Paterson in Three Positions off Le Havre
1885 Edouard Adam – The John Paterson in Three Positions off Le Havre
1887 Edouard Adam - Sailing Boats Le Havre
1887 Edouard Adam – Sailing Boats Le Havre
1889 Edouard Adam - Storm in Le Havre
1889 Edouard Adam – Storm in Le Havre
1913 Edouard Adam - The Albuera off Le Havre
1913 Edouard Adam – The Albuera off Le Havre
???? Edouard Adam - Kaleda off Le Havre
???? Edouard Adam – Kaleda off Le Havre

Sainte-Adresse

The city of Sainte-Adresse (population: 7,400) is an immediate suburb of Le Havre and lies to the North/West alongside the coast. It shares the same seaside promenade with Le Havre.

1901 - Adam Edouard - The beach of Sainte Adresse
1901 – Adam Edouard – The beach of Sainte Adresse

TODAY: The wave breakers are still there, but now they have the promenade at the top of them.

Here are the painters/artists who painted in Le Havre (a “*” indicates that the artist did not worked directly in Le Havre itself, instead worked closeby, a link “” to the artist’s works will appear below when published):

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