Claire jeanne roberte colinet biography of barack
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David (Pierre Jean) D'Angers ()
He was born in Angers in His father was a wood carver and ornamental sculptor, who had joined the volunteer Republican army as a musketeer, fighting against the Chouans of La Vendée. He studied in the studio of Jean-Jacques Delusse and in traveled to Paris to study in the studio of Philippe-Laurent Roland.While in Paris he did work both on the Arc de Triomphe and the exterior of the Louvre. In he succeeded in taking the second place prize at the École des Beaux-Arts for his Othryades. In David's La Douleur won the École's competition for tête d'expression followed by his taking of the Prix de Rome for his Epaminondas in the same year. He spent five years in Rome, during which time he frequented the studio of Antonio Canova and made small trips around Italy to Venice, Naples and Florence.
Returning from Rome around the time of the restoration of the Bourbons and their accompanying foreign conquerors and returned royalist
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A Large Patinated Bronze Sculpture of kejsare Napoleon on Horseback
Comte dem Nieuwerkerke
A photographic portrait of Comte Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (), () by CRÉMIÈRE Léon ()
Alfred Emilien O&#;Hara, Comte dem Nieuwerkerke () was an influential figure in the arts in France during the reign of Napoleon III becoming ‘dirécteur-général des Musées’ in and from serving as ‘surintendant des Beaux-Arts’; he also advised on acquisitions for the Royal collections.
A sculptor, museum director and collector he was a member of a prominent Royalist family of Dutch descent, who became a naturalised Frenchman and the morganatic husband of Princess Mathilde Letitia Wilhelmina Bonaparte.
Son of the Dutch Legitimist officer Charles de Nieuwerkerke (, Lyon – , Paris), who returned to Paris with Louis XVIII in after the Hundred Days, he become a page of Charles X in and entered the ‘école royale de cavalerie’ at Saumur in However, as a legitimist, he abandoned his career on Charles X&#;s fall in
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Mary Edmonia “Wildfire” Lewis, known as “Edmonia Lewis”, was the first woman of mixed-race ancestry in the United States to become an accomplished sculptor of national and international import, finding renown in Italy and England as well as at home during the Civil War era. Her marble creations are distinctive for their depictions of abolitionists icons, Native American and African American subjects, biblical themes, and portraits executed in the neoclassical style popular in the late nineteenth century. Unravelling E. Lewis’s history has been filled with enigmas and compounded by the complex realities of women working within male-centric cultures that coveted the genre of sculpture as well as the variables of the artist’s own descriptions and documented interviews.
E. Lewis was born in upstate New York in Her mother, Catherine Mike Lewis, was part Mississauga Ojibwe and was an accomplished weaver and craftswoman. Her father was African American, with the last name L