Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort

Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort (28 August 1793 – 24 December 1861) was a French artist who painted in both oil and water colours. The French King Louis-Philippe commissioned several of his works.

Biography

In 1842, Fort exhibited four canvases of battles and sieges at the Salon (Paris), Salon. They had been ordered by King Louis-Philippe for the "musée historique de Versailles". In the following year, he was commissioned to produce a view of the royal residence (''View of the Palace of Compiègne'' (1843)).

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1793 births
1861 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
French watercolourists
19th-century French male artists

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