Eugene Francois Adolphe Deshayes - Artist Info

About Eugene Francois Adolphe Deshayes

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Eugene De Shayes
  • Biography

    The father of the artist, Adolphe Deshayes, took part in the siege of Constantine on October 10, 1837 where he was seriously wounded. He was transferred to the service in the administrative government of Algiers. It was in that city that he was married.

    His son, Eugene Deshayes was born in the Mustapha Hospital, and was a fragile child. He was unenthusiastic about his studies at the Lycée d'Alger; only drawing seemed to interest him. His parents died when he was young, and his older brother, a doctor at the Douera Hospital, raised him.

    At eighteen, he entered the National School of Fine Arts of Algiers, directed at that time by Emile Charles Labbé, a Barbizon School landscape painter. He made ...

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