Frédéric-Auguste Laguillermie (27 March 1841,

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– 14 December 1934, Paris) was a French

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and painter. He was one of the founders of the .

Biography

He was born to Eugénie, née Hime, and Frédéric-Guillaume Laguillermie (1805–1870), an engraver and printer, who was the associate cartographer for Victor Levasseur. He received his initial training in his father's studio then, in 1861, entered the

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, where he studied etching with

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, and painting with William Bouguereau. In 1862, he became one of the first members of the original , founded by

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, who published several of his early plates. His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1863. He won the

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in 1866, for his intaglio work, and spent four years at the

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.Jules Martin (Ed.), '' Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs…'', Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1897, pg.228
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/ref> In 1869, he made a visit to Spain to copy the masterworks of Diego Vélazquez. Not long after his return to France, the Franco-Prussian War began. During the Siege of Paris, he attempted to enlist. Later, during the

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, he was able to remain in Paris by taking refuge in the studios of his teacher, Bouguereau, who had fled to

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. In 1883, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor. Two years later, he was the founder of a new "Société des aquafortistes français", which came under the artistic direction of Flameng. Its governing committee included publishers such as , Alphonse Lemerre and

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."Société artistique des aquafortistes français", In: Janine Bailly-Herzberg, ''Dictionnaire de l'estampe en France (1830-1950)'', Flammarion, 1985, pg.365. He was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889, and a Grand Prize at the

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of 1900. During that same period, he was named a professor of engraving at the

. Many of his students became well known; notably , ,

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, , and . In 1911, he was elected to the

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, where he took Seat #4, succeeding Oscar Roty (deceased). In addition to his reproductions, he provided illustrations for works by Arsène Houssaye,

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, and Benvenuto Cellini, as well as frontispieces for volumes of the ''Almanach des spectacles''; issued by the Librairie des bibliophiles from 1902 to 1913. Laguillermie-Samate

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