Eugène-Ferdinand Buttura (1812–1852) was a French historical

landscapist Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

Life

The son of the poet Antonio Buttura, he was born in Paris in 1812. He began his studies in the atelier of

Bertin Bertin (; 615 – ''c''. 709 AD), also known as Saint Bertin the Great, was the Frankish abbot of a monastery in Saint-Omer later named the Abbey of Saint Bertin after him. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The ...

, from which he went to that of

Paul Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (; Paris, 17 July 1797 – Paris, 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subje ...

. He won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

for landscape in 1837 with his picture of ''Apollo inventing the seven-stringed Lyre''. On his return from Rome in 1842, he exhibited ''The Ravine'', and in 1848, ''Daphne and Chloe at the Fountain of the Nymphs'', for each of which he was rewarded with a gold medal. Other notable works included ''Nausicaa and Ulysses'', ''Saint Jerome in the Desert'', and A View of Tivoli''. He also produced some small pictures, in the style of the realistic school, such as ''Campo Vicino'' (1845), which was lithographed by Anastasi; ''The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina'' (1846), a ''View of the Cascades of Tivoli'', and a ''Park Interior'', which rivalled photography in their neatness and sharpness of effect and minuteness of detail. He died in Paris in 1852. Badajoz by Eugene Buttura

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* 1812 births 1852 deaths Painters from Paris French landscape painters Prix de Rome for painting 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub