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The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
..., Charles ( b Chevilly, nr. Lausanne , 2 May 1806 ; d Paris , 5 May 1874 ). Swiss painter , active mainly in Paris, where he enjoyed a successful career, particularly with anecdotal scenes, sometimes in an antique setting, and portraits. He was a renowned teacher and when Delaroche closed his teaching studio in 1843 , the majority of his students transferred to Gleyre. He taught Whistler and several of the Impressionists — Bazille , Monet , Renoir , and Sisley —and although his own paintings were conventional, he encouraged open-air...
Gleyre, Charles Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
..., Charles ( b Chevilly, nr. Lausanne, 2 May 1806 ; d Paris, 5 May 1874 ). Swiss painter, active mainly in Paris, where he settled in 1838 after four years travelling in the Near East ( see Orientalism ). His successful career was based mainly on figure compositions, sometimes in an antique setting, and portraits. He had a highly polished technique and was a renowned teacher; when Delaroche retired from teaching in 1843 , the majority of his students transferred to Gleyre . He taught Whistler and several of the Impressionists — Bazille , ...
Charles Gleyre
Frédéric Bazille
Alfred Sisley
Sir Edward Poynter
Paul Delaroche
Daniel Ridgeway Knight
George Du Maurier
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
James McNeill Whistler
orientalism
Delaroche, Paul Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
...After a period when such pictures were totally out of favour, his work is once again being treated seriously. Delaroche also painted religious works and portraits, and he was a highly respected teacher, his pupils including Couture , Gérôme , and Millet ( see also Gleyre ). In 1835 he married the daughter of Horace Vernet ; her early death in 1845 cast a pall over his final...
Poynter, Sir Edward (1836–1919) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
...English painter. The son of an architect, Poynter single-mindedly pursued an artistic career from childhood. In Rome in 1853 , aged 17, he was inspired by Michelangelo and Leighton whose studio he visited. In 1856 , finding English training inadequate, he enrolled at Charles Gleyre's Academy in Paris for three years and was later immortalized in George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ) as the industrious ‘Lorrimer’. In 1867 and 1868 his exhibits at the Royal Academy, London, Israel in Egypt (London, Guildhall) and The Catapult (Newcastle on...
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824–1904) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
...Jean-Léon ( 1824–1904 ). French painter and sculptor, a specialist in highly detailed and archaeologically precise scenes of daily life from ancient Greece and Rome, in oriental subjects, and in historical tableaux set in the Baroque era. A pupil of Delaroche , and of Charles Gleyre , from 1855 he travelled regularly in Turkey, Egypt, and Asia Minor. His Egyptian genre scenes won him the admiration of Gautier , and The Prisoner ( 1861 ; Nantes, Mus. des Beaux-Arts) became one of the most famous 19th-century pictures. His Death of Caesar ( 1859 ;...
Bazille, Frédéric (1841–70) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
...Frédéric ( 1841–70 ). One of the core group of early French Impressionist painters; killed in action in the Franco-Prussian War. Bazille came from a well-to-do family in Montpellier who sent him to Paris in 1862 to study medicine but allowed him to attend the studio of Charles Gleyre ( 1808–74 ), where he met Sisley , Monet , and Renoir . In 1864 he started to paint full-time, and he exhibited in every Paris Salon from 1866 to 1870 . In the years 1863 to 1865 he made painting trips with Monet to Chailly and Honfleur. In addition to landscapes,...
Sisley, Alfred (1839–99) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
...Alfred ( 1839–99 ). Born in Paris of English parents, Sisley , a landscape painter, was a leading member of the Impressionist group. In c. 1860 he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre ( 1808–74 ), and in this decade, influenced by Corot , he worked in the forest of Fontainebleau. In the 1870s he painted the villages by the Seine near Paris, where he developed a fully Impressionist style, distinguished by a delicate touch and masterly sense of tone, and by the subtle poetry of unassuming and tranquil motifs. Some works suggest the romantic...
Orientalism Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
...at Jaffa , 1804 , Louvre, Paris). Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was among the pioneers in actually visiting exotic lands (in 1828–9 ) and in making them his speciality. Those who followed him included Delacroix , Fromentin , Gleyre , and Gérôme . Among sculptors, the most notable specialist in Orientalism was Charles Cordier ( 1827–1905 ), best known for busts of North African people, in which he used polychromy and semi-precious stones to suggest the opulence of the East. Outside France, the artists who made a career out of the fashion included...
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841–1919) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
... Renoir's art is a celebration of the beauty of women and nature; his images both of modern Parisian life and of idealized figures in a timeless landscape suggest an enchanted and radiant world. He trained initially as a porcelain painter and in 1861 entered the studio of Charles Gleyre ( 1808–74 ) where he met Sisley , Bazille , and Monet . His early canvases, indebted to Courbet , are sombre, but in 1869 he painted with Monet at the fashionable bathing establishment La Grenouillère on the Seine, where he developed the dappled light effects and broken...
