Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort
Panoramic view of the siege of Gdańsk by French forces in 1807 by Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort
Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort (28 August 1793 – 24 December 1861)[1] was a French artist who painted in both oil and water colours.[2] The French King Louis-Philippe commissioned several of his works.
Biography[]
In 1842 Fort exhibited four canvases of battles and sieges at the Salon. They had been ordered by King Louis-Philippe for the "musée historique de Versailles".[3] The following year he was commissioned to produce a view of the royal residence (View of the Palace of Compiègne (1843)).[4]
Notes[]
- ^ John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 73.
- ^ Artnet staff.
- ^ Starcky 2012, p. 3.
- ^ Starcky 2012, p. 5.
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- Artnet staff, Jean-Antoine-Simeon Fort (French, 1793-1861), www.artnet.com, retrieved 1 September 2013
- Starcky, Emmanuel (23 April 2012), "The patronage and collections of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III during the era of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert" (PDF), in Avery-Quash, Susanna (ed.), Essays from a study day held at the National Gallery, London on 5 and 6 June 2010, Royal Collection Trust, ISBN 978-1905686-75-9, retrieved 1 September 2013
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