Artist Directory — France

Fouché, Nicolas (1653-1733)

Nicolas Fouché was a master French portraitist who emerged as a notable figure of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century French school, active ch...
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Landois, Michel (c.1660s-1726)

Michel Landois was a French painter active in Paris during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1669, he belonged...
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Richet, Léon (1843-1907)

Born in Solesmes, Léon Richet was a French landscape painter associated with the later generation of the Barbizon School. He trained under Théodore Rousseau ...
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Coté, Hippolyte (1816-1874)

Etienne Alexandre Hyppolite Coté (1816-1874), was a Breton painter whose life unfolded not in the studios of Paris but in the bustling naval city of Brest. T...
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Silvestre, Louis De (1675-1760)

Born in Sceaux, near Paris, Louis de Silvestre was an esteemed French portraitist and history painter. The son of the King’s engraver, Israël Silvestre, he t...
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Gaudelet, Charles (1817-1870)

Charles Gaudelet was a notable master glass-maker and occasional watercolourist. Born in Paris, as Jean Charles Paul Gaudelet, little is known about Gaudelet...
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Adam, Édouard (1847-1929)

Édouard Adam was Le Havre’s leading ship portraitist and worked at the port for over fifty years. His extensive body of work is an education on the evolving ...
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