René Gillotin
René Gillotin (1814-1861) was a French naval officer and painter. He was born in Normandy and entered the naval school at Brest, France. His first campaign was to South America in 1833, with a first stop at Gorée in Senegal. 1844-1846 he visited French Polynesia on the frigate . After promotion to lieutenant, he visited Senegal again in 1852 on the steam frigate . He served in the Crimean War as a commander, and made many drawings and watercolor paintings throughout his naval career.
, a nephew of René Gillotin, came upon a trove of writings, drawings, sketches and watercolors by his uncle. Based upon this discovery, he published De Constantinople a Tahiti: Seize ans d'aquarelles autour du monde, 1840-1856, en suivant Rene Gillotin in 1997.[1] Gillotin’s style is typical of mid-19th-century French painting.[2] Although he is best known for his images of French Polynesia and Constantinople, he also drew and painted (presumable from life) in Africa, South America and Hawaii.[3]
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- Jacquin, François, De Constantinople a Tahiti: Seize ans d'aquarelles autour du monde, 1840-1856, en suivant Rene Gillotin, Paris, Karthala, 1997 ISBN 2865377636
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- Hawaii artists
- 19th-century French painters
- French male painters
- French Navy officers
- French landscape painters
- People from Normandy
- French military personnel of the Crimean War
- 1814 births
- 1861 deaths