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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Lepoittevin was also known as Poidevin. He was born in Paris. A student of Hersent and of Xavier Le Prince, he first showed at the Salon in 1831, thereafter exhibiting regularly until 1870. He exhibited a number of marine works that attracted a great deal of attention. He also painted several historic naval paintings for the galleries of Versailles. He was a member of the academies in Anvers and in Berlin, and also worked in England for a time, like Monet, painting views of the Thames. He also travelled to Italy, painting in Naples and Rome. Although he painted a number of genre scenes, his best works are of marine subjects and those set on the banks of a river, as in this work. | Subjects: | duck); figure; townscape; marine; buildings and gardens (windmill) animal (pig | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lepoittevin, Eugène Modeste Edmond (French painter, 1806-1870) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8827... | Go to resource |
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