Jules Achille Noël, born Louis Assez Noël (24 February 1815,

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– 26 March 1881, Algiers) was a French landscape and maritime painter who worked primarily in

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and

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Biography

His family originally came from

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. Some sources say that he was born there in 1810. His father was a draftsman working on the canal being built from Nantes to

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and gave him his first drawing lessons.Famous people of Dieppe and its region since ancient times to the present day.
/ref> He later studied at the "Académie de Peinture et de Dessin" (Académie Charioux) in Brest. Afterwards, he went to Paris to seek his fortune and came under the influence of his fellow Breton painter Pierre-Julien Gilbert.Jules Noël @ Wiki-Brest
/ref> After four years of struggling to earn his living, he returned to Brittany to teach drawing in

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and Nantes. He had begun to participate in the Salon in 1840 and, in 1845, was one of several artists commissioned to provide engraved illustrations for a book on prisons by

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entitled ''Les Bagnes: historie types, mystères...''. Eventually, his work attracted the attention of

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, who obtained him a position as a Professor of Design at the

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, where he would teach from 1847 until his retirement in 1879.

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and

Félix Buhot Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator. Biography Félix Buhot is the son of Florentin Louis Buhot and of Anne Appoline Buhot, born Jobelin. With his wife Henriette Johnston, they are the par ...

were among his best-known students there. During school vacations he would return to paint in Brittany. He was in ill-health at the time of his retirement, so he went to live with his daughter and her husband in Algeria and died there. His style was compared to

Eugène Isabey Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (22 July 1803, in Paris – 25 April 1886, in Montévrain) was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style. Biography He was born to Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a well known painter wh ...

and he won the praise of Baudelaire. The Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper presented a major retrospective of his works in 2005.La Tribune de l'Art
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Gallery

File:Jules Achille Noël - L'Arrivee d'une Diligence au Tréport (1878).jpg, "L'Arrivee d'une Diligence au Tréport" by Jules Achille Noël. A "Diligence" was a horse-drawn coach. File:Jules Noël Le rémouleur à Morlaix musée Jacobins.jpg, Jules Noël's painting of a wheelwright at work in a Morlaix street. File:NoelBrest.jpg, The Port of Brest (1864)

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Noël
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