Ernest Gustave Girardot - Artist Info

About Ernest Gustave Girardot

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Gustave Ernest Girodot
  • Biography

    Ernest Gustave Girardot (1840–1904) was born into a well-known artistic French family and worked as a genre and portrait painter throughout his life. His portraits of Tennyson and Lady Lytton are held in high regard.

    Girardot exhibited between 1880 and 1904 at the Royal Academy* in London, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Royal Hibernian Academy*, Royal Scottish Academy and Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He became a member of the Society of British Artists in 1874.[3]

    Girardot's home and workplace were at first in Notting Hill and later at 'The Studio', Upper Park Road, Haverstock Hill, London. He was a friend and correspondent of James McNeill Whistler - many of their letters have survived.

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