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 Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre part ...

, was born at Dol in

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in 1814. He studied under Gudin and

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. He was a naval officer who rose to the rank of captain. In 1840, he accompanied the fleet which repatriated

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's remains from

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, which island afforded him subjects for various pictures. He spent much of his time in travelling; he went to

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with the squadron,

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in 1841–42 aboard a French warship, and explored Uruguay and Brazil; he accompanied the expeditions to

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s and

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, 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

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during the war with Russia, where he turned his hand to photography as well as painting. He was one of about fifteen photographers, including

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and James Robertson, who photographed soldiers, barracks, camp life and battlefields and were the first to record a major war on film. Later, he returned to Constantinople where he made photographs of the landscape, monuments and the people. He was a versatile painter, producing naval scenes, genre works, ''

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'' works, landscapes''A Guide to the Art of Latin America'', 1948, p. 319 and works with Orientalist themes. There are several of his works in the galleries of Versailles. File:American Sidewheeler De Ruyter to the Rescue, by Jean Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager.jpg, ''The American

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"De Ruyter" to the rescue'' File:Durand-Brager- Battle of the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama 1864.png, ''Battle of the

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and the

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'', 1864 File:Le Magenta, Durand-Brager.jpg, ''The

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'', now in the

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.�Musée des beaux- ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Durand-Brager, Jean Baptiste Henri 1814 births 1879 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters French marine artists Orientalist painters People from Ille-et-Vilaine 19th-century French male artists

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