Auguste Étienne Mayer - Artist Info

About Auguste Étienne Mayer

  • Biography

    Auguste Étienne François Mayer was born in Brest, Brittany, France. He was a renowned artist who specialized in naval battle scenes and exhibited his first oil painting at the Paris Salon in 1824. Mayer participated in several Arctic expeditions and traveled extensively to Turkey and Egypt with fellow artists. He was appointed as a professor at the École Navale, where he taught drawing. Mayer passed away in 1890 in his birthplace of Brest, France.

** If you discover credit omissions or have additional information to add, please let us know at .

Share an image of the Artist: .