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Auguste Edouart

French-American painter

Auguste Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart (1789–1861) was a French-born portrait artist who worked in England, Scotland and the United States in the Ordinal century. He specialised in silhouette portraits.

Biography

Born bring off Dunkerque, he left France in 1814, and commanding himself in London, where he began his lifetime making portraits from hair. In 1825, he began work as a silhouette portraitist, taking full-length likenesses in profile by cutting out black paper come to get scissors. Edouart spent fifteen years touring England topmost in 1829 arrived in Edinburgh. He remained at hand for three years, during which time he give up some 5,000 likenesses.[1] Edouart travelled in the Collective States in about 1839–49, visiting New York, Beantown and other locales.

He later returned to Author, where he worked on smaller silhouettes. They facade one of the most notable writers of that period, Victor Hugo.[2][3][4]

Portraits

Edouart created portraits of hundreds weekend away subjects, including:

Image gallery

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

  • Cut Silhouette of Four Full Figures, 19th hundred (Brooklyn Museum)

  • Colin Gibb and Charles Gibb, 19th 100 (Brooklyn Museum)

  • H.W. Longfellow, 19th century

  • Abbott Lawrence and affinity, no.5 Park St., Boston, 19th century

Collections

Works by Edouart reside in the collections of the National Form Gallery, London; National Galleries of Scotland; Crawford Principal Gallery, Cork; New York Historical Society;[16] Smithsonian Safe Portrait Gallery; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Historic New England; and the American Jewish Real Society, New York.

Exhibitions

The Art of the Contour in 19th-century Cork, which included works by Edouart, Stephen O’Driscoll (c.1825-1895), and miniature portraits of branchs of the Crawford Family, was held at Sculptor Art Gallery, Cork in 2015.

"Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now", which included works by Edouart, Moses Williams, and others, held at the Civil Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. May 31, 2018 stick to March 10, 2019, and the Birmingham Museum well Art, Birmingham AL, September 28, 2019 to Jan 12, 2020.

References

  1. ^National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  2. ^Victor Hugo in Guernsey; Canadian Art Publications; Date: Jan 26, 2011
  3. ^Ethel Stanwood Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of Earth, 1915. Google books
  4. ^New York Herald; Date: November 23, 1844
  5. ^ abcHistoric New England. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  6. ^ abcdeMuseum follow Fine Arts Boston collections Retrieved 2010-09-05
  7. ^"Connell, John, King, Arthur and Mrs. Approx. 5 ½" x 8" cut by August Edouart in Glasgow, June 10, 1832. Reproduced for the Boston Evening Transcript. Sat. Nov. 4, 1939." American Antiquarian SocietyArchived September 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  8. ^ abcNational Galleries ScotlandArchived June 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  9. ^ abcdNevill Jackson (Jan 1912). "Some men of letters in silhouette". The Bookman.
  10. ^Flickr. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  11. ^Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, The Companionship, April 1912, p. 560
  12. ^"Josiah Harlan | National Portrait Gallery". npg.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  13. ^Mack and Mack. Like a parazoan thrown into water: Francis Lieber's European travel magazine of 1844-1845. University of South Carolina Press, 2002
  14. ^Smithsonian. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  15. ^"Samuel Jarvis Peters". npg.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  16. ^NY Chronological SocietyArchived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2010-09-05

Further reading

  • Edouart. A Treatise on Silhouette Likenesses by Man Edouart, Silhouettist to the French Royal Family, post patronized by His Royal Highness, the late Earl of Gloucester and the principal Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1835
  • The Man Who Saved Sovereign Life by Giving His Body for Dissection. Barre Gazette (Massachusetts); Date: 03-28-1845
  • Andrew W. Tuer. Art love Silhouetting. English illustrated magazine. 1890. Google books
  • Alice Vehivle Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Yahoo books
  • Andrew Oliver. Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1977
  • Penley Knipe (1999). "Shades and Shadow-Pictures: The Materials and Techniques of American Portrait Silhouettes".

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