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Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager
Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814–1879) was a French painter, noted for his marine scenes and Orientalist works. Life and career Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, a French marine painter, was born at Dol in Brittany in 1814. He studied under Gudin and Eugène Isabey. He was a naval officer who rose to the rank of captain. In 1840, he accompanied the fleet which repatriated Napoleon's remains from St. Helena, which island afforded him subjects for various pictures. He spent much of his time in travelling; he went to Buenos Aires with the squadron, Montevideo in 1841–42 aboard a French warship, and explored Uruguay and Brazil; he accompanied the expeditions to Tangiers and Mogador, and to Madagascar. He painted views of the places he visited, and also naval combats and sea-pieces. He died in 1879. In the 1850s, he was in the Crimea during the war with Russia, where he turned his hand to photography as well as painting. He was one of about fifteen photographers, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dol-de-Bretagne
Dol-de-Bretagne (, literally ''Dol of Brittany''; br, Dol; Gallo: ''Dóu''), cited in most historical records under its Breton name of Dol, is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine ''département'' in Brittany in northwestern France. Geography Dol-de-Bretagne is situated in the northern part of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, 6 km from the English Channel coast and 22 km southeast of Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast. The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli .... Dol-de-Bretagne station is served by high speed trains to Rennes and Paris, and regional trains to Saint-Malo, Saint-Brieuc, Granville and Rennes. History ''Dol'' is a Breton language, Breton term meaning "low and fertile place in the flood plain of a waterway;" cf. Welsh language, Welsh ''dôl'' ("meadow"). In 549, the Welsh Saint Teilo was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robertson (photographer)
James Robertson (1813–1888) was an English gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, and who became a pioneering photographer working in the Crimea and possibly India. He is noted for his Orientalist photographs and for being one of the first war photographers. Life and career Robertson was born in Middlesex in 1813. He trained as an engraver under Wyon (probably William Wyon). In 1841, he settled in Constantinople where he worked as an "engraver and die-stamper" at the Imperial Ottoman Mint. During this period, he appears to have become interested in photography. By the 1850s, tourist travel to the Near East created strong demand for photographs as souvenirs. A small group of early photographers, mostly of French origin, made their way to Egypt and Constantinople to capitalise on this demand. These pioneering photographers included Félix Bonfils (1831-1885); Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), brothers Henri and Emile Bechard; the British-Italian brothers, An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Male Painters
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19th-century French Painters
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1879 Deaths
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1814 Births
Events January * January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine. * January 3 ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison surrenders to the British after ten days of bombardment. ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Metz: Allied armies lay siege to the French city and fortress of Metz. * January 5 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Puruarán: Spanish Royalists defeat Mexican Rebels. * January 11 – War of the Sixth Coalition – Battle of Hoogstraten: Prussian forces under Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow defeat the French. * January 14 ** Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway into personal union with Sweden, in exchange for west Pomerania. This marks the end of the real union of Denmark-Norway. ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Antwerp: Allied forces besiege French Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Artistic Works With Orientalist Influences
This is an incomplete list of artistic works with Orientalist influences. Art * David Roberts, ''The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia'' (1842) * Théodore Chassériau, ''Arab Chiefs Challenging each other to Single Combat under the Ramparts of a City'' (1852) * Léon Belly, '' Pélerins allant à La Mecque'' (1861) * Gustave Guillaumet, ''Evening Prayer in the Sahara'' (1863) * Alfred Dehodencq, '' Boabdil’s Farewell to Granada'' (1869) * Henri Regnault, ''Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada'' (1870) * Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, '' Le jour des funérailles - Scène du Maroc'' (1889) Literature * ''The Travels of Marco Polo'', 13th century * ''Travels of Sir John Mandeville'', 14th century invented account of travels * Fernão Mendes Pinto, '' Peregrinação'' (1556), the most complete of the early Portuguese written accounts of the Indic, southeast Asia, China and Japan * Christopher Marlowe, ''Tamburlaine'', 1588/89 * John Dryden, ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Orientalist Artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subjects may not have formed a major part of their body of work. For example, the list includes some portrait painters based in Europe who on occasion painted sitters wearing "oriental" costume. The list also includes Orientalist photographers, engravers and lithographers. The list includes links to the English Wikipedia, and where no English article exists, named artists are linked to foreign language versions of Wikipedia, where available. Note: This listing uses Spanish naming customs, for personalities from cultural areas where they prevail : the first family name is the paternal name and the second is the maternal family name. Artists are listed alphabetically by their paternal family name. For example, the Spanish artist, JoaquÃn Sorolla y Bastida, is listed und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Thomas-Henry
The Musée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry is a museum at Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche) with around 300 artworks, mainly paintings from the 15th to 19th centuries. It has been rated as the third most important collection in Normandy.ÂMusée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry », ''www.ville-cherbourg.fr'' History It was formed after a series of anonymous donations to the city between 1831 and 1835, totalling 163 paintings and later revealed to have been made by Thomas Henry, town councillor and art critic France Huser, « Le mécène de la Normandie », ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' n°2022, 6 August 2003 — having lost his two sons, he wanted to allow the city's young people to gain an education in art. These young people included Jean-François Millet, who copied paintings in the museum. In 1835, a museum was formed from these 163 paintings, including works by Italian 'primitives' such as Fra Angelico (''The Conversion of Saint Augustine'') and Filippo Lippi (''The Burial''). The foundationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ironclad Magenta
''Magenta'' was the lead ship of her class of two broadside ironclads built for the French Navy () in the early 1860s. She served as flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron. Design and description The ''Magenta'' class were two-decked ironclad ships of the line, much as the preceding were armored versions of traditional frigates. ''Magenta'' was long, had a beam of , and a draft of . The ship displaced . The ''Magenta''s were equipped with a metal-reinforced, spur-shaped ram, the first ironclads to be fitted with a ram,Campbell, p. 287 and they had a crew of 674 officers and enlisted men.Gille, p. 24 The ''Magenta''-class ships had a single two-cylinder horizontal-return connecting-rod compound steam engine that drove the propeller shaft,de Balincourt & Vincent-Bréchignac, p. 25 using steam provided by eight boilers. The engine was rated at 1,000 nominal horsepower or and was intended to give the ships a speed in excess of . During their sea trials, sister ship achieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSS Alabama
CSS ''Alabama'' was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool, England by John Laird Sons and Company. ''Alabama'' served as a successful commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never docked at a Southern port. She was sunk in June 1864 by at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg, France. History Construction ''Alabama'' was built in secrecy in 1862 by British shipbuilders John Laird Sons and Company, in north west England at their shipyards at Birkenhead, Wirral, opposite Liverpool. The construction was arranged by the Confederate agent Commander James Bulloch, who led the procurement of sorely needed ships for the fledgling Confederate States Navy. The contract was arranged through the Fraser Trenholm Company, a cotton broker in Liverpool with ties to the Confederacy. Under prevailing British neutrality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kearsarge (1861)
USS ''Kearsarge'', a ''Mohican''-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider off Cherbourg, France during the American Civil War. ''Kearsarge'' was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire. Subsequent ships were later named ''Kearsarge'' in honor of the ship. Hunting Confederate raiders ''Kearsarge'' was built at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, under the 1861 American Civil War emergency shipbuilding program. The new steam sloop-of-war was launched on 11 September 1861; she was sponsored by Mrs. McFarland, the wife of the editor of the ''Concord Statement'', and was commissioned on 24 January 1862, with Captain Charles W. Pickering in command. Soon after, she was hunting for Confederate raiders in European waters. ''Kearsarge'' departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 5 February 1862 for the coast of Spain. She then sailed to Gibraltar to join the blockade of Confederate raider , forci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
