Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Catalogue of Paintings From the Collection of the Late Sir George A. Drummond: On View January 31st to March 16th, 1918
Born at Nantes in 1812, son of a porcelain worker, in whose factory he first worked. He made his way to Paris in 1831, in which year he showed five landscapes so full of nature that they at once commanded attention. In 1833 received first Salon medal, and from then his career was a continued success. Officer of the Legion of Honor, 1870. Died at Isle Adam in 1889, the last of the band of artists. The School of 1830, that redeemed French art from the lifeless ness of classicism.
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