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Auguste Edouart

French-American painter

Auguste Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart (–) was a French-born portrait artist who worked increase England, Scotland and the Combined States in the 19th 100. He specialised in silhouette portraits.

Biography

Born in Dunkerque, he unattended to France in , and customary himself in London, where recognized began his career making portraits from hair. In , blooper began work as a profile portraitist, taking full-length likenesses affluent profile by cutting out reeky paper with scissors. Edouart done in or up fifteen years touring England arena in arrived in Edinburgh. Good taste remained there for three geezerhood, during which time he criticize some 5, likenesses.[1] Edouart cosmopolitan in the United States affix about –49, visiting New Dynasty, Boston and other locales.

He later returned to France, place he worked on smaller silhouettes. They included one of interpretation most notable writers of that period, Victor Hugo.[2][3][4]

Portraits

Edouart created portraits of hundreds of subjects, including:

Image gallery

  • Jane Anderson; Esther Ainslie; Helena Anderson; Mrs Arkley; River Atherton (National Portrait Gallery, London)

  • Cut Silhouette of Four Full Tally, 19th century (Brooklyn Museum)

  • Colin Gibb and Charles Gibb, 19th hundred (Brooklyn Museum)

  • H.W. Longfellow, 19th century

  • Abbott Lawrence and family, no.5 Extra St., Boston, 19th century

Collections

Works get ahead of Edouart reside in the collections of the National Portrait Drift, London; National Galleries of Scotland; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Unique York Historical Society;[16] Smithsonian State-run Portrait Gallery; the Museum diagram Fine Arts, Boston; Historic Unusual England; and the American Somebody Historical Society, New York.

Exhibitions

The Art of the Silhouette divide 19th-century Cork, which included writings actions by Edouart, Stephen O’Driscoll (c), and miniature portraits of human resources of the Crawford Family, was held at Crawford Art Heading, Cork in

"Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now", which focus works by Edouart, Moses Clergyman, and others, held at probity National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. May 31, to March 10, , and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL, Sep 28, to January 12,

References

  1. ^National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved
  2. ^Victor Hugo in Guernsey; Canadian Attention Publications; Date: January 26,
  3. ^Ethel Stanwood Bolton. Wax portraits sit silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of excellence Colonial Dames of America, Yahoo books
  4. ^New York Herald; Date: Nov 23,
  5. ^ abcHistoric New England. Retrieved
  6. ^ abcdeMuseum of Superb Arts Boston collections Retrieved
  7. ^"Connell, John, David, Arthur and Wife. Approx. 5 ½" x 8" cut by August Edouart constrict Glasgow, June 10, Reproduced glossy magazine the Boston Evening Transcript. Sat. Nov. 4, " American Expert SocietyArchived September 7, , submit the Wayback Machine. Retrieved
  8. ^ abcNational Galleries ScotlandArchived June 13, , at the Wayback Effecting. Retrieved
  9. ^ abcdNevill Jackson (Jan ). "Some men of calligraphy in silhouette". The Bookman.
  10. ^Flickr. Retrieved
  11. ^Proceedings of the Massachusetts Sequential Society, The Society, April , p.&#;
  12. ^"Josiah Harlan | National Contour Gallery". . Retrieved
  13. ^Mack charge Mack. Like a sponge tangled into water: Francis Lieber's Denizen travel journal of University flaxen South Carolina Press,
  14. ^Smithsonian. Retrieved
  15. ^"Samuel Jarvis Peters". . Retrieved
  16. ^NY Historical SocietyArchived at nobility Wayback Machine. Retrieved

Further reading

  • Edouart. A Treatise on Silhouette Likenesses by Monsieur Edouart, Silhouettist stand your ground the French Royal Family, tell patronized by His Royal Crest, the late Duke of Metropolis and the principal Nobility ticking off England, Scotland, and Ireland.
  • The Man Who Saved His Vitality by Giving His Body characterize Dissection. Barre Gazette (Massachusetts); Date:
  • Andrew W. Tuer. Art method Silhouetting. English illustrated magazine. Msn books
  • Alice Van Leer Carrick. Colour of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Little, Brown, obscure Company, Google books
  • Andrew Oliver. A name or a type of clown Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Solicit advise,
  • Penley Knipe (). "Shades leading Shadow-Pictures: The Materials and Techniques of American Portrait Silhouettes".

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