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DAUBIGNY, CHARLES FRANCOIS (1817–1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 848 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAUBIGNY, See also:CHARLES See also:FRANCOIS (1817–1878) , See also:French landscape painter, allied in several ways with the See also:Barbizon School, was See also:born in See also:Paris, on the 15th of See also:February 1817, but spent much See also:time as a See also:child at Valmondois, a See also:village on the See also:Oise to the See also:north-See also:west of Paris. Daubigny was the son of an artist, and most of his See also:family were painters. He began to paint very See also:early in See also:life, and at the See also:age of seventeen he took a studio of his own. Within twelve months he had saved enough to go to See also:Italy, where he studied and painted for nearly two years; he then returned to Paris, not to leave it again until, in 186o, he took a See also:house at Anvers on the Oise. By 1837 Daubigny had become famous as a See also:river and landscape painter, although he had been devoting himself as well to See also:drawing in See also:black-and-See also:white, to See also:etching, See also:wood See also:engraving, and See also:lithography. In 1855 his picture, " See also:Lock at Optevoz," now in the Louvre, was See also:purchased by the See also:state; four years later Daubigny was created See also:knight of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and in 1874 he was promoted to be an officer. In 1866, at the invitation of See also:Lord, then Mr, See also:Leighton and others,.he visited See also:London, where, however, he was hurt by his now famous " Moonlight " being badly hung in the Old Royal See also:Academy.

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