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Jean Victor Adam (28 January 1801 – 30 December 1866) was a French painter and lithographer.
Jean Victor Adam (28 January 1801 – 30 December 1866) was a French painter and lithographer.
Life
Adam was born in Paris in 1801, the son ofJean Adam
Jean Adam (or Adams) (30 April 1704 – 3 April 1765) was a Scottish poet from the labouring classes; her best-known work is "There's Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose". In 1734 she published a volume of her poetry entitled ''Miscellany poems'', but the ...
, an engraver. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1814–18, and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault.
In 1819 he exhibited ''Herminia succouring Tancred''. He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles, including ''The Entry of the French into Mainz'', ''The Battle of Varroux'', ''The Taking of Menin'', ''The Battle of Castiglione'', ''The Passage of the Cluse'', ''The Battle of Montebello'' and ''The Capitulation of Meiningen'' the last three in collaboration with Jean Alaux
Jean Alaux, called "''le Romain''" ("the Roman"), (1786 – 2 March 1864) was a French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1846 to 1852.
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He continued to exhibit until 1838, his subjects including ''Henry IV., after the Battle of Coutras'', ''Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri'', ''The Postillion'', ''The Vivandiere'', ''The Road to Poissy'', ''The Return from the Chase'', ''Horse-fair at Caen'', and many others. He then disappeared from public view until 1846, when he exhibited some lithographs, dedicating himself to the medium from then on. In this line he produced a lithographic album, ''Views in the Environs of Paris'', ''Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon'', etc. He won a gold medal in 1824, a second class medal in 1836, besides several others from Lille, Douai, and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1867.
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19th-century French painters French male painters French lithographers 1801 births 1867 deaths Painters from Paris École des Beaux-Arts alumni 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub