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BRACQUEMOND, FELIX (1833— )

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BRACQUEMOND, FELIX (1833— )

BRACQUEMOND, See also:
FELIX
FELIX, ANTONIUS
FELIX, LIA (1830– )
FELIX (1833— ) , See also:

French painter and etcher, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

Paris. He was trained in See also:

early youth as a See also:

trade lithographer, until See also:

GUICHARD, KARL GOTTLIEB (1724—1775)

Guichard, a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

INGRES, JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE (178o-1867)

Ingres, took him to his studio. His portrait of his grandmother, painted by him at the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of nineteen, attracted See also:

THEOPHILE

Theophile See also:

Gautier's See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention at the See also:

SALON

Salon. He applied himself to See also:

ENGRAVING

engraving and See also:

ETCHING (Dutch, etsen, to eat)

etching about 1853, and played a leading and brilliant See also:

PART

part in the revival of the etcher's See also:

ART

art in See also:

France. Altogether he has produced over eight See also:

HUNDRED

hundred plates, comprising portraits, landscapes, scenes of contemporary See also:

LIFE

life, and See also:

BIRD

bird-studies, besides numerous interpretations of other artists' paintings, especially those of See also:

Meissonier, Gustave See also:

Moreau and See also:

COROT

Corot. After having been attached to the Sevres See also:

PORCELAIN

porcelain factory in 1870, he accepted a See also:

POST

post as art manager of the Paris atelier of the See also:

FIRM

firm of Haviland of See also:

LIMOGES

Limoges. He was connected by a See also:

LINK

link of firm friendship with See also:

MANET, EDOUARD (1832-1883)

Manet, See also:

WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT

Whistler, and all the other fighters in the impressionist cause, and received all the honours that await the successful artist in France, including the grade of officer of the See also:

LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour in 1889.

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