Art

All artist who painted in France.

Arthur Joseph Meadows

Fecamp – The Artists – Meadows, Arthur Joseph

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

Fecamp – The Artists – Michallon, Achille-Etna

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

Fecamp – The Artists – Monet, Claude

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

Fecamp – The Artists – Morisot, Berthe

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

Fecamp – The Artists – Noel, Jules Achille

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.

Camille Pissarro

Fecamp – The Artists – Pissarro, Camille

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

Fecamp – The Artists – Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

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.

Gaston Roullet

Fecamp – The Artists – Roullet, Gaston

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.

Paul Signac

Fecamp – The Artists – Signac, Paul

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.

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield

Fecamp – The Artists – Stanfield, Clarkson Frederick

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

Fecamp – The Artists – Timmermans, Louis-Etienne

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.

The "Jardin des Personnalités" of Honfleur

Honfleur – The “Jardin des Personnalites”

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 Myers Boggs

Honfleur – The Artists – Boggs, Frank Myers

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.

Eugene-Louis Boudin

Honfleur – The Artists – Boudin, Eugene-Louis

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.

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