Louis-Augustin Auguin (29 May 1824 – 30 July 1903) was a French landscape and seascape painter of the Saintonge school.

Biography

Born in

Rochefort, Charente-Maritime Rochefort ( oc, Ròchafòrt), unofficially Rochefort-sur-Mer (; oc, Ròchafòrt de Mar, link=no) for disambiguation, is a city and communes of France, commune in Southwestern France, a port on the Charente (river), Charente estuary. It is a Subpr ...

, he initially studied under his father and uncle, both painters. He then moved to Paris in 1842 to study under

Jules Coignet Jules Louis Philippe Coignet was born in Paris in 1798 and died there in 1860. He was a noted landscape art, landscape painter who had studied under Jean-Victor Bertin. He travelled a good deal in his own country as well as elsewhere in Europe a ...

and

Jean-Baptiste Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast o ...

. He moved back to his birthplace in 1849 in the aftermath of the

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. There, he trained others in drawing and painting and improved his own skills, influenced by the naturalism of Corot and

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...

, both of whom stayed in Saintes in 1862 and 1863. Corot, Courbet, Auguin and

Hippolyte Pradelles Justin Jean-Baptiste Hippolyte Pradelles (29 March 1824 – 6 January 1913) was a French landscape painter. Initially working as a draughtsman and watercolourist, Pradelles later moved into painting, principally producing regional landscapes but ...

(one of Auguin's friends) formed the Port-Berteau Group in 1862 and together they exhibited 170 works to the public on 15 January the following year at the Hôtel de Ville in Saintes. The group then broke up, with Auguin and Pradelles moving to

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

, where they both later died. 1824 births 1903 deaths 19th-century French painters French landscape painters French marine artists People from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime {{France-painter-19thC-stub