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William Albert Ablett (9 July 1877, Paris – 25 April 1936, Paris) was a French painter, designer and engraver of English ancestry. He is best known for his fashionable portraits of women.
His father, William James Ablett (1843–1909), was President of the 
He was fatally injured in an automobile accident in an alley near the Bois de Boulogne, and died the following morning at ''Le Temps'', 27 April 1936
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* Stephen Bury, ''Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators'', Oxford University Press, 2012
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William Albert Ablett (9 July 1877, Paris – 25 April 1936, Paris) was a French painter, designer and engraver of English ancestry. He is best known for his fashionable portraits of women.
Biography
His father, William James Ablett (1843–1909), was President of the British Chambers of Commerce
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office in France. In 1897, he entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts as a foreign student.
He studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme and Albert Aublet
Albert Louis Aublet (; 18 January 1851, in Paris – 3 March 1938, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French painter known primarily for his genre scenes and nudes.
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Trained in the workshops of Claudius Jacquand and Jean-Léon Gérôme, he had ...
, who would also become his friend. In 1900, he was awarded a second prize for his drawings from nature at the Salon
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. In 1905, he was awarded a silver medal at the '' Exposition Universelle de Liège''.
In 1907, he became a member of the . He was a regular exhibitor at the Société nationale des beaux-arts from 1910 to 1936; presenting mostly portraits and genre scenes.
He began working with engravings during the early 1920s, primarily illustrations for magazines and reviews. Many of his works were female figures related to fashion and the decorative arts, done as colored etchings.
In 1930, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
. He was also elected to the Royal Academy of Arts
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The following year, his daughter, Marie-Germaine Ablett, married the architect, , the son of his former teacher and friend Albert Aublet
He was fatally injured in an automobile accident in an alley near the Bois de Boulogne, and died the following morning at Beaujon Hospital
The Beaujon Hospital () is located in Clichy, Paris, France and is operated by APHDP. It was named after Nicolas Beaujon, an eighteenth-century French banker
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Further reading
*Emmanuel Bénézit
Charles Emmanuel Bénézit (; Jersey, 1854 – Paris, 1920) was a French gallery owner, collector, art historian and editor of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
Biography
Bénézit was born on Jersey, where his father, musician Charles Bénézi ...
, '' Benezit Dictionary of Artists'', Vol.1, Gründ, 192Online
* Stephen Bury, ''Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators'', Oxford University Press, 2012
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@ the Galerie Hubert Duchemin {{DEFAULTSORT:Ablett, William 1877 births 1936 deaths 19th-century French painters French people of English descent French portrait painters Engravers from Paris Road incident deaths in France 20th-century French painters