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DAUBENY, See also:CHARLES See also:GILES BRIDLE (1795-1867) , See also:English chemist, botanist and geologist, was the third son of the Rev. See also:James Daubeny, and was See also:born at Stratton in See also:Gloucestershire on encouragement of his admirers in See also:England made up for the disappointment, and the See also:sale of his picture to a Royal Academician greatly pleased him. In 187o–1871 he again visited See also:London, and subsequently See also:Holland, where he painted a number of See also:river scenes with windmills. In 1874, having returned to See also:Paris, he See also:fell See also:ill, and from that See also:time until he died (on the 19th of See also:February 1878) his See also:work won less distinction than before. In 1904 the See also:municipality of Auvers-sur-See also:Oise decided to erect a See also:bronze See also:monument to See also:Daubigny's memory. Daubigny's finest pictures were painted between 1864 and 1874, and these for the most See also:part consist of carefully completed landscapes with trees, river and a few ducks. It has curiously been said, yet with some See also:appearance of truth, that when Daubigny liked his pictures himself he added another See also:duck or two, so that the number of ducks often indicates greater or less See also:artistic quality in his pictures. One of his sayings was, " The best pictures do not sell," as he frequently found his finest achievements little understood. Yet although during the latter part of his See also:life he was considered a highly successful painter, the See also:money value of his pictures since his See also:death has increased nearly tenfold. Daubigny is chiefly preferred in his See also:riverside pictures, of which he painted a See also:great number, but although there are two large landscapes by Daubigny in the Louvre, neither is a river view. They are for that See also:reason not so typical as many of his smaller Oise and See also:Seine pictures. The See also:works of Daubigny are, like See also:Corot's, to be found in many See also:modern collections.

His most ambitious canvases are: " See also:

Spring-time" (1857), in the Louvre; "Borde de la Cure, See also:Morvan" (1864); "VillervillesurMer" (1864); "Moonlight" (1865) ; "Andresysur Oise" (1868); and "Return of the Flock—Moonlight" (1878). His followers and pupils were his scn Karl (who sometimes painted so well that his works are occasionally mistaken for those of his See also:father, though in few cases do they equal his father's mastery), See also:Oudinot, Delpy and Damoye. See Fred Henriet, C. Daubigny et son oeuvre (Paris, 1878); D. Croal See also:Thomson, The See also:Barbizon School of Painters (London, 189o) ; J. W. Mollett, Daubigny (London, 1890) ; J. See also:Claretie, Peintres et sculpteurs contemporains: Daubigny (Paris, 1882); See also:Albert See also:Wolff, La Capitale de fart: Ch. See also:Francois Daubigny (Paris, 1881). (D. C.

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