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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 980 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZIEM, See also:FELIX See also:FRANCOIS See also:GEORGE PHILIBERT (1821— ) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Beaune (Cote d'Or) in 1821. Having studied at the See also:art school of See also:Dijon, where he carried off the See also:grand prix for See also:architecture, he went to See also:Rome in 1839 and there continued his studies. The years from 1845 to 1848 were spent in travel in the See also:south of See also:France, See also:Italy and the See also:East, where he found the glowing sunlight and the See also:rich See also:colour peculiarly suited to his temperament. His reputation is, how-ever, not based so much on his orientalist canvases as on his pictures of See also:Venice, which are generally characterized by the intensity of the sunny glow on the red sails and See also:golden-yellow buildings under a deep See also:blue See also:sky. Many of his Venetian pictures are purely imaginative, and their See also:appeal is entirely due to their qualities of colour, his architectural See also:drawing being frequently faulty and careless. After " Sunrise at Stamboul," which See also:Theodore See also:Gautier called " the finest picture of See also:modern times," he received the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1857, and was made an officer in 1878. The See also:majority of his paintings have gone to See also:American private collections, but two of his finest pictures, " The See also:Doge's See also:Palace in Venice" (1852), and a marine-See also:painting, are at the Luxembourg Museum, and a " View of Quai St See also:Jean, See also:Marseilles " at the Marseilles See also:Gallery, whilst many others are to be found in the leading private collections of modern pictures in France, See also:England and See also:Germany. In collaboration with Luc de Vos he illustrated The See also:Death of See also:Paganini. See Felix Ziem, by L. See also:Roger-See also:Miles (Librairie de fart, See also:Paris).

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