Fecamp – The Artists – Maufra, Maxime
Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer. He painted quite a few paintings in Normandy.
Here are his paintings for Yport, close town to Fecamp in Normandy.
All artist who painted in France.
Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer. He painted quite a few paintings in Normandy.
Here are his paintings for Yport, close town to Fecamp in Normandy.
Arthur Joseph Meadows (1843 – 1907) was a British painter of coastal scenes and marines who was greatly influenced by Clarkson Stanfield. Arthur Joseph is generally considered to be the best of the Meadows family of marine artists, he was the younger brother of James Edwin Meadows Jnr. and the son of James Meadows Snr.
Here is the 1 painting of his we found which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Achille Etna Michallon (1796–1822) was a French painter. Michallon was the son of the sculptor Claude Michallon and nephew of the sculptor Guillaume Francin. He travelled to Italy in 1818 and remained there for over two years.
Before he had much time to develop what he had learned however, he died at the age of 25 of pneumonia.
Here is the one painting of his we found which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Claude Monet is without any doubt the most famous impressionist painter. He started the movement, and he was the master of it.
Although he was born in Paris, France (and died in Giverny, Normandy, France), his heart was Normandy, particularly the Normandy coastline. His family moved to Le Havre in 1845 where his father wanted him to join the family ship-chandling business, but instead he decided to become an artist.
Here are his works for Fecamp and its surroundings (Yport, Grainval and Les Petites-Dalles)
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
In 1874, she joined the Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.
Morisot was married to Eugene Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague Edouard Manet. Morisot died on March 2, 1895, in Paris, of pneumonia.
Here is her work for Fecamp and nearby Petites-Dalles in Normandy
Jules Achille Noel, born Louis Assez Noel (1815-1881) was a French landscape and maritime painter who worked primarily in Brittany and Normandy.
His style was compared to Eugene Isabey and he won the praise of Baudelaire.
Here are paintings of his which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Charles Pecrus was born in the Centre of France (Limoges) but was quickly discovered and moved to Paris to study art.
Napoleon III even bought one of his paintings. Here is one painting of his we found which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
He painted quite a few paintings in Normandy. He did not work in Fecamp itself, instead painted in the nearby Petites-Dalles.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.”
Renoir to our knowledge did not paint in Fecamp itself, but in the nearby village of Yport. Here are his paintings.
Marie Anatole Gaston Roullet (1847 – 1925), is a French painter and illustrator, appointed official painter of the Colonies and the Navy in 1885.
Roullet was a pupil of Jules Noel, whose daughter, Marie-Caroline, he married in 1874.
Appointed painter to the Navy and the departments of the Colonies, Roullet took part in the military campaigns of Tonkin in 1885.
Here are his paintings for Fecamp, Normandy.
Henry Thomas Schafer, aka Henry Thomas Schäfer, was a British painter who travelled extensively in Europe. But very little is known about this artist.
He painted in quite a few places in Normandy. Here are his paintings he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (1851 – 1934) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector. A friend of Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh.
Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style. He started training as an architect but quickly decided he wanted to be an artist.
Here are his works for Fecamp, Normandy.
William Frome Smallwood (1806 – 1834) was a British artist who made several paintings in France and the United Kingdom.
However, almost nothing else is known about this artist.
Here are his paintings for Fecamp, Normandy/
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793 – 1867) was a prominent English painter (often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield) who was best known for his large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes. He was the father of the painter George Clarkson Stanfield and the composer Francis Stanfield.
Until his death he contributed a long series of powerful and highly popular works to the Academy, both of marine subjects and landscapes from his travels at home and in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Ireland.
Here is the one painting of his we found which he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
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.
Here is the 1 painting of his we found that he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
Theodore Alexander Weber (1838 – 1907) was born in Leipzig, Germany and died in Paris, France. He was a German painter who took the French nationality in 1878.
Here are his paintings he made in Fecamp, Normandy.
The benedictine liqueur is famous all over the world, and it’s made here in Fecamp in this incredible palace, which is also a museum.
The Lascaux cave art is famous the world over and is part of the UNESCO Heritage Sites. Discovered by a teenage boy chasing his dog, the enormous cave complex in the Dordogne region of Southern France uncovered a vast gallery of cave art dating back some 20,000 years. The caves were discovered in 1940, and in …
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The “Jardin des Personnalités” (famous people garden) is a must see and it’s free. Located next to the harbour entry, it’s a big landscaped garden with small gardens inside, each named after a famous person who lived or worked in Honfleur.
Frank Boggs was an American (and later French) painter (born in the USA, died in France). He studied art in Paris, and travelled between France (Normandy), The Netherlands, Italy and Belgium. He naturelized to French citizenship. He is buried next to his artist son in Paris.
Here are some of his many paintings he made in Honfleur, Normandy.
Russian artist Alexey (Alexei) Bogolyubov painted all over the world, but many of his works were centered along the Normandy coastlines.
Here are his works for Honfleur.
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.
Here is one painting of his we found which he made in Honfleur, Normandy.
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 are some of his any painting he made in Honfleur, Normandy.