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FLANDRIN, JEAN HIPPOLYTE (1809-1864)

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FLANDRIN, See also:JEAN HIPPOLYTE (1809-1864) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Lyons in 1809. His See also:father, though brought up to business, had See also:great fondness for See also:art, and sought himself to follow an artist's career. Lack of See also:early training, however, disabled him for success, and he was obliged to take up the See also:precarious occupation of a See also:miniature painter. Hippolyte was the second of three sons, all painters, and two of them eminent, the third son See also:Paul (b. 1811) ranking as one of the leaders of the See also:modern landscape school of See also:France. See also:Augusta (1804-1842), the eldest, passed the greater See also:part of his See also:life as See also:professor at Lyons, where he died. After studying for some See also:time at Lyons, Hippolyte and Paul, who had See also:long determined on the step and economized for it, set out to walk to See also:Paris in 1829, to See also:place themselves under the tuition of See also:Hersent. They See also:chose finally to enter the atelier of See also:Ingres, who became See also:net only their instructor but their friend for life. At first considerably hampered by poverty, Hippolyte's difficulties were for ever removed by his taking, in 1832, the See also:Grand Prix de See also:Rome, awarded for his picture of the " Recognition of See also:Theseus by his Father." This allowed him to study five years at Rome, whence he sent See also:home several pictures which consider-ably raised his fame. " St Clair healing the See also:Blind " was done for the See also:cathedral of See also:Nantes, and years after, at the See also:exhibition of 18J5, brought him a See also:medal of the first class. " Jesus and the Little See also:Children " was given by the See also:government to the See also:town of See also:Lisieux. " See also:Dante and See also:Virgil visiting the Envious Men struck with See also:Blindness," and " See also:Euripides See also:writing his Tragedies," belong to the museum at Lyons.

Returning to Paris through Lyons in 1838 he soon received a See also:

commission to See also:ornament the See also:chapel of St See also:John in the See also:church of St Severin at Paris, and reputation increased and employment continued abundant for the See also:rest of his life. Besides the pictures mentioned above, and others of a similar See also:kind, he painted a great number of portraits. The See also:works, however, upon whin his fame most surely rests are his monumental decorative paintings. Of these the See also:principal are those executed in the following churches:—in the See also:sanctuary of St Germain See also:des Pres at Paris (1842-1844), in the See also:choir of the same church (1846-1848), in the church of St Paul at Nismes (1848-1849), of St See also:Vincent de Paul at Paris (1850-1854), in the church of Ainay at Lyons (1855), in the See also:nave of St Germain des Pres (1855-1861). In 1856 Hippolyte Flandrin was elected to the Academie des See also:Beaux-Arts. In 1863 his failing See also:health, rendered worse by incessant toil and exposure to the See also:damp and See also:draughts of churches, induced him again to visit See also:Italy. He died of small-pox at Rome on the 21st of See also:March 1864. As might naturally be expected in one who looked upon See also:painting as but the vehicle for the expression of spiritual sentiment, he had perhaps too little See also:pride in the technical qualities of his art. There is shown in his works much of that austerity and coldness, expressed in See also:form and See also:colour, which springs from a faith which feels itself in opposition to the tendencies of surrounding life. He has been compared to Fra See also:Angelico; but the faces of his long processions of See also:saints and martyrs seem to See also:express rather the austerity of souls convicted of See also:sin than the joy and purity of never-corrupted life which shines from the See also:work of the early See also:master. See See also:Delaborde, Lettres et pensees de H. Flandrin (Paris, 1865); Beule, See also:Notice historique sur H.

F. (1869).

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