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BLANCHE, JACQUES EMILE (1861– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 40 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLANCHE, JACQUES EMILE (1861– ) , See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris. He enjoyed an excellent See also:cosmopolitan See also:education, and was brought up at Passy in a See also:house once belonging to the princesse de See also:Lamballe, which still retained the See also:atmosphere of 18th-See also:century elegance and refinement and influenced his See also:taste and See also:work. Although he received some instruction in See also:painting from Gervex, he may be regarded as self-taught. He acquired a See also:great reputation as a portrait painter; his See also:art is derived from French and See also:English See also:sources, refined, sometimes super-elegant, but. full of See also:character. Among his See also:chief See also:works are his portraits of his See also:father, of See also:Pierre See also:Louys, the Thaulow See also:family, See also:Aubrey See also:Beardsley and Yvette See also:Guilbert.

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