Jean Seignemartin (16 April 1848,

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- 29 November 1875,

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) was a French painter of the

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His father was a weaver. Having shown artistic talent, in 1860 he was enrolled at the

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, where he studied with Michel Philibert Genod and

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. He graduated in 1865 with the "Laurier d’or" and shared a studio with his friend, . In 1870, at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, he was drafted and assigned to a unit of pontonniers from Paris. This involved being almost constantly in the water (even during winter), which resulted in infections that led to

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. After his return, he helped decorate Frigolet Abbey under the direction of Antoine Sublet. Later, he settled into his own studio in Lyon, where he attracted notable patrons such as Dr. Raymond Tripier and the banker R. Stengelin, father of the painter Alphonse Stengelin. In 1874, he went to

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, accompanied by Doctor Tripier. There he met

Albert Lebourg Albert Lebourg (1 February 1849, in Montfort-sur-Risle – 6 January 1928, in Rouen), birth name ''Albert-Marie Lebourg'', also called ''Albert-Charles Lebourg'' and ''Charles Albert Lebourg'', was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist la ...

, a professor at the , who had a major influence on his style. In spring of the following year, he returned to Lyon, but went back to Algeria shortly thereafter on the advice of his doctors. He died that winter. It took several weeks to arrange for the transport of his body, which was interred at the Cemetery of Loyasse. A public subscription was taken up to adorn his tomb with a bronze bust by Étienne Pagny. He painted portraits,

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scenes and

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s of flowers, but his paintings from Algeria are his best-known works. A street in the

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is named after him.

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