Eugène Louis Lami (12 January 1800 – 19 December 1890) was a French painter, watercolorist,

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

, illustrator and designer. He was a painter of fashionable Paris during the period of the

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and the

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and also made history paintings and illustrations for books such as

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and

Manon Lescaut ''The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'' ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of ''Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité'' (''Memoirs and Adventures of a Ma ...

Life

He worked at the studio of

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then studied at the

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in Paris with Camille Roqueplan and

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under Antoine-Jean Gros. While there, he learned

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technique from

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and later became a founding member of the Society of French Watercolorists. Lami began working in lithography and in 1819 produced a set of 40 lithographs depicting the Spanish cavalry. These, plus a collaboration with Vernet on a large set of lithographs titled ''Collections des uniformes des armées françaises de 1791 à 1814'' helped build a reputation for doing military scenes which transferred to his paintings. His 1829 portrait of the English king,

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as he was being led to imprisonment in

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was purchased by King

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and was on display in the French National Assembly from 1848 to 1969. Today, this work along with his 1840 painting of

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in the gardens of the

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are both in the

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. Lami's painting of the ''

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'', depicting the moment of the American victory over the British on 26 January 1815 is in the Louisiana State Museum at

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. He also painted a scene of the storming of Redoubt #10 during the

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Gallery

File:Lami, Eugène Louis, Grenadier of the Royal Guard, ca. 1817.jpg, ''Grenadier of the Royal Guard'', ca. 1817,

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File:EL Lami - Storming of redoubt 10 during the Siege of Yorktown (1840).jpg, '' The Storming of Redoubt No. 10'' File:Lami, Eugène Louis, Entry to a Drawing Room at Marlborough House, 1871.jpg, ''Entry to a Drawing Room at

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'', 1871, Princeton University Art Museum

References

*''19th Century Watercolors'' by

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(1991)

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External links

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Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Lami (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lami, Eugene 1800 births 1890 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters French lithographers Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros 19th-century French male artists