Article: Painters & Their Masters
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The painters presented here are listed artists of French and European painting. They exhibited at the Salons, trained under recognised masters, and their signed works remain accessible to collectors today. From the Old Masters of Antwerp to the studio of Gustave Moreau, this directory presents them movement by movement, and each name opens a full biography written from the works in our collection.
| SchoolBarbizon School | 7 Barbizon School paintings for sale → |
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Michel, Émile1828-1909 In 1872 he left the city the Germans had taken. The picture we hold carries that year on its face, and shows a woman with her turkeys. |
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Renault, Charles Edmond1829-1905 Charles Edmond Renault studied under Flers, Corot and Théodore Rousseau, the three men who invented French plein-air landscape, and then left almost no biography. |
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Forest, Eugène1808-1891 Eugène Forest (1808-1891) drew political satire on stone beside Daumier, then set the stone down and spent thirty years painting quiet fields, haystacks and birds. |
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Guignard, Alexandre Gaston1848-1922 Gaston Guignard (1848-1922) was admitted to the Paris bar, served in a dragoon regiment in 1870, and never went back to the law: he spent the next fifty years painting flocks and open country. |
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Peraire, Paul Emmanuel1829–1893 Paul Emmanuel Peraire (1829-1893) was a stockbroker until a conviction in 1859 ended that life. He became a painter, and exhibited at the Paris Salon every single year for the next twenty-seven. |
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Desvarreux-Larpenteur, James1847–1937 Born in Baltimore, trained in Paris under the great cattle painter Van Marcke, and faithful all his life to the pastures and flocks of the countryside, James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937) carried the late Barbizon manner between two worlds, the salons of Paris and the American Midwest. |
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Chaplin, Charles Joshua1825–1891 Long before the name belonged to a man with a bowler hat, Charles Chaplin was the favourite painter of Empress Eugénie — and the teacher of Mary Cass |
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| MovementOrientalism | 3 Orientalist paintings for sale → |
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Alfred Couverchel1834-1867 A favored pupil of Horace Vernet, collected by Napoleon III: the dazzling, brief career of a master of French Orientalist painting. |
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| MovementImpressionism | 1 French Impressionist paintings for sale → |
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Forest, Pierre1881-1971 Born to the light of Nice, Pierre Forest ended his life known for the clouded skies of Paris. What the dictionaries remember him for, and how to recognise his hand. |
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Andrieux, Alfred Louis1879-1945 Son of the prefect of police of Paris, half-brother of the poet Louis Aragon, Alfred Louis Andrieux (1879-1945) chose a quieter path: forty-four years of snow, mountains and the hunt. |
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Cals, Adolphe Felix1810–1880 Adolphe-Félix Cals (1810-1880) hung his canvases with Monet, Degas and Pissarro at the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 — at sixty-three, the oldest artist in the room. |
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Audra, Paul1869-1948 He left Moreau's studio alongside Matisse. Thirty years later, in Nice, he helped his old classmate find somewhere to paint. |
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Printemps, Léon1871-1945 Léon Printemps sat in Gustave Moreau's atelier beside Matisse, Rouault and Marquet — and was the one who did not blow anything up. He exhibited at the Salon for fifty-two consecutive years. |
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A listed artist is a painter documented in the standard art references, whose work has a public record at auction. Every painter on this page is such an artist. His work is documented, his signature is known, and his auction record can be verified. It is the difference between buying a name and buying a decoration.
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Biographical information compiled from published artist reference sources. Photographs of the paintings in our collection by GalerieClub Fine Art.