Gabriel Lory the Elder (Gabriel Ludwig Lori, ''Lory le père''; 1763 – November 1840) was a Bernese landscape painter and illustrator, father of Gabriel Lory the Younger (Mathias Gabriel Lori, 1784–1846).

Biography

He worked as an apprentice with

Johann Ludwig Aberli Johann Ludwig Aberli (14 November 1723, Winterthur - 17 October 1786, Berne) was a Swiss painter and etcher. Biography He was born into a humble family. His father was a watchman. After completing his basic education, he became the student of a ...

and

Caspar Wolf Caspar Wolf ( Muri, Aargau, 3 May 1735 – Heidelberg, 6 October 1783) was a Swiss painter, known mostly for his dramatic paintings of the Alps. He was strongly influenced by Albrecht von Haller's poems on the Alps, and the Sturm und Dra ...

of Bern; later with

Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe Bacler d'Albe (October 21, 1761 – September 12, 1824) was a French artist, as well as the map-maker and closest strategic advisor of Napoleon from 1796 until 1814. Bacler d'Albe was one of Napoleon's longest-lasting companions: a fellow arti ...

and Jean-François Albanis de Beaumont (1755–1812) of

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...

. He was employed as an illustrator with

St Gallen St. Gallen or traditionally St Gall, in German language, German; it, San Gallo; rm, Son Gagl) is a Switzerland, Swiss List of cities in Switzerland, city and the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Canton of St. Gallen, St ...

publisher Bartholomäus Fehr and married Fehr's sister Wilborada. From 1784, Lory was back in Bern, working on an edition of colorized landscape panoramas. In 1787, he edited art prints with Simon Daniel Lafond (1763-1831), mostly motifs of the

Bernese Oberland The Bernese Oberland ( en, Bernese Highlands, german: Berner Oberland; gsw, Bärner Oberland; french: Oberland bernois), the highest and southernmost part of the canton of Bern, is one of the canton's five administrative regions (in which context ...

, later also landscapes from other parts of the

canton of Berne The canton of Bern or Berne (german: Kanton Bern; rm, Chantun Berna; french: canton de Berne; it, Canton Berna) is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. Its capital city, Bern, is also the ''de facto'' capital of Switzerland. ...

Ticino Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...

and

Central Switzerland Central Switzerland is the region of the Alpine Foothills geographically the heart and historically the origin of Switzerland, with the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Lucerne and Zug. Central Switzerland is one of the NUTS 2 Stat ...

. A compilation of his Swiss landscape prints was edited in Leipzig in 1795. He worked in

Herisau Herisau is a municipality and the capital of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. It is the seat of the canton's government and parliament; the judicial authorities are situated in Trogen. The central hamlet and the houses around ...

during 1795–1801, editing views of Moscow and St Petersburg. During 1805–1812, he worked in Neuchatel for the cartographer, . Together with his son, he published '' Voyage pittoresque de Genève à Milan par le Simplon'' (1811) and ''Voyage pittoresque dans la vallée de Chamouni et autour du Montblanc'' (1815). From 1812 until his death he resided in his native Bern. His first wife died in 1814, and he married Barbara Fuchser of Oberdiessbach in 1816.

References

*Conrad Mandach: ''Deux peintres suisses : Gabriel Lory le père (1763–1840) et Gabriel Lory le fils (1784–1846)''. Haeschel-Dufey, Lausanne 1920. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lory, Gabriel 18th-century Swiss painters 18th-century Swiss male artists 19th-century Swiss painters 19th-century male artists Swiss illustrators Artists from Bern 1763 births 1840 deaths