Art

All artist who painted in France.

Henry Thomas Schafer

Caen – The Artists – Schafer, Henry Thomas

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 works he made in the city of Caen.

Clarkson George Stanfield

Caen – The Artists – Stanfield, George Clarkson

George Clarkson Stanfield was an English painter. Stanfield was born in London, the second son from the second marriage of his painter father Clarkson Frederick Stanfield. He received his artistic training largely from his father, and painted the same class of subjects including landscape art and marine art. He attended the Royal Academy Schools, but was not formally enrolled.

He is best known for his topographical views painted during his visits to the Rhine Valley, the Moselle, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes.

He did not paint much in Normandy, but here’s the only painting we found of his from Caen.

Felix Thorigny

Caen – The Artists – Thorigny, Felix

Felix Thorigny (1824, Caen – 1870, Paris) was a French master draughtsman, veduta painter and landscape painter. He worked extensively in Paris and London. Not much else is known about this artist.

Here are some of his works we found dealing with Caen (Normandy).

Louis-Etienne Timmermans

Caen – 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 are his works for Langrune-sur-Mer, a town close to Caen, Normandy.

William Turner

Caen – The Artists – Turner, William

Joseph Mallord William Turner, known contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.

He spent a lot of time painting in Normandy, despite that, we found only 2 of his painting of Caen.

Louis Valtat

Caen – The Artists – Valtat, Louis

Louis Valtat (1869 – 1952) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves (“the wild beasts”, so named for their wild use of color), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d’Automne. He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse.

He became good friends with Auguste Renoir. He did not paint in Caen itself, instead painted in nearby Ouistreham.

Frank Myers Boggs

Caudebec-en-Caux – 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 is the one painting we found of his of Caudebec-en-Caux.

Louis Boudan

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Boudan, Louis

Louis Boudan (16??–17??) was an artist who worked for François Roger de Gaignières, a French genealogist, antiquary and collector who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Almost all of his drawings are of the castles and churches to be found in France towards the end of the 17th and beginning 18th century. Many of the historical monuments he painted can still be seen today.

Here is one drawing of his made in Caudebec-en-Caux, and 1 he made close to this town in Normandy.

Eugene Louis Boudin

Caudebec-en-Caux – 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 numerous paintings he made in Caudebec-en-Caux.

Thomas Shotter Boys

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Boys, Thomas Shotter

Thomas Boys was born at London. He was articled to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship came to an end he went to Paris where he met and came under the influence of Richard Parkes Bonington, who persuaded him to abandon engraving for painting.

Boys did not work in Caudebec itself, instead he painted in nearby Jumieges, Normandy.

John Burgess Jr.

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Burgess Jr, John

John Burgess Junior was a British artist. He was part of the Burgess dynasty of artists; son of John Cart Burgess (an English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes, and an author of two books on art technique) and Charlotte Smith (a talented sculptress and silver medal winner at the Royal Academy).

He did not work in Caudebec-en-Caux itself, instead he painted in nearby Jumieges, Normandy.

David Young Cameron

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Cameron, David Young

Sir David Young Cameron was a Scottish painter and etcher. Cameron was the son of the Rev. Robert Cameron and was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

As well as becoming well known as an etcher the artist also produced a great many oil paintings and watercolour sketches of landscapes and architectural subjects. Cameron’s earliest known oil painting dates to 1883.

We found one of his paintings made in Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandy.

Milly Childers

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Childers, Milly

Emily Maria Eardley Childers, known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century.

She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers’s early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890. After her father’s 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father’s social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam. Childers exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

We found only one of her works dealing with Caudebec-en-Caux.

Charles Cundall

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Cundall, Charles

Charles Ernest Cundall, (1890 – 1971), was an English painter of topographical subjects and townscapes, best known for his large panoramic canvases.

Whilst serving with the Royal Fusiliers in World War I, he was wounded in the right arm and had to learn to paint with his left arm before he returned to the RCA in 1918.

Here are his paintings for Caudebec-en-Caux and surrounding Jumieges.

Raoul Dufy

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Dufy, Raoul

Raoul Dufy (1877 – 1953) was a French painter in the Fauvism, Impressionism, Modernism and Cubism movements.

He was born in Le Havre where he studied arts in the local school. He (and his younger brother Jean Dufy) both painted a lot in Normandy. He went to school in Le Havre and there became a longlife friend of fellow artist Othon Friesz.

We did find only one of his paintings dealing with Caudebec-en-Caux.

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