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Eugène Lavieille
Eugène Lavieille (29 November 1820 in Paris – 8 January 1889 in Paris) was a French painter. Biography His father was a tapestry maker and he was the younger brother of Jacques Adrien Lavieille (1818–1862), who became a famous wood-engraver. Eugène Lavieille began to work as a painter and decorator, decorator painter but was drawn to painting. In 1841 he was accepted at the workshop of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Corot becoming one of his better, more faithful disciples and later a friend. Eugène Lavieille soon devoted himself solely to painting despite financial difficulties and becoming a family man, marrying his first wife in 1847 (she died in 1848 soon after the birth of their son Adrien) and his second in 1852. A nature lover, Eugène Lavieile painted outdoors whatever the weather. Frequent subjects of his paintings included trees, forests, fields, pools, farms, hamlet streets, riversides, ships on the strand and the flat coasts around Berck and some sites such as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Lavieille Selfportrait, 1883
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek language, Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin". Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia (name), Eugenia or Eugenie. Egon, a common given name in parts of central and northern Europe, is also a variant of Eugene / Eugine. Other male foreign-language variants include: People Notable people with the given name Eugene or Eugène include:Christianity *Pope Eugene I (died 657), Italian pope from 655 to 657 *Pope Eugene II (died 827), Italian pope from 824 to 827 *Pope Eugene III (died 1 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |