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1801 Maastrich (Netherlands) - 1888 Paris, France. Known for: Portrait and genre painting.
A portrait and genre painter, Jacques Amans exhibited at the Salon in Paris 1831 to 1837, and then returned to the United States and worked in New Orleans. He died in Paris in 1888. Source:... Read full biography
A portrait and genre painter, Jacques Amans exhibited at the Salon in Paris 1831 to 1837, and then returned to the United States and worked in New Orleans. He died in Paris in 1888. Source: "Dictionary of Artists in America" by George Groce and David Wallace... Read full biography
A portrait and genre painter, Jacques Amans exhibited at the Salon in Paris 1831 to 1837, and then returned to the United States and worked in New Orleans. He died in Paris in 1888. Source: "Dictionary of Artists in America" by George Groce and David Wallace... Read full biography
A portrait and genre painter, Jacques Amans exhibited at the Salon in Paris 1831 to 1837, and then returned to the United States and worked in New Orleans. He died in Paris in 1888. Source: "Dictionary of Artists in America" by George Groce and David Wallace... Read full biography
A portrait and genre painter, Jacques Amans exhibited at the Salon in Paris 1831 to 1837, and then returned to the United States and worked in New Orleans. He died in Paris in 1888. Source: "Dictionary of Artists in America" by George Groce and David Wallace... Read full biography
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A portrait and genre painter, Jacques Amans exhibited at the Salon in Paris 1831 to 1837, and then returned to the United States and worked in New Orleans. He died in Paris in 1888.
Source: "Dictionary of Artists in America" by George Groce and David WallaceBiography from California Auctioneers & Appraisers
A portrait and genre painter, Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans was trained in the French neoclassical tradition of portraiture. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831 to 1837. News of fellow-artist Jean Joseph Vaudechamp's good fortune in finding patrons probably led Amans to visit Louisiana since the two artists traveled on the same ship from France to New Orleans in about 1837. Following Vaudechamp's departure from Louisiana in 1839, Amans assumed the role as the most celebrated portraitist in Louisiana.
In the mid 1840s he married Azoline Landreaux, the daughter of a St. Charles Parish sugar planter Pierre Honoré Landreaux and Joséphine Armant, and purchased Trinity Plantation on Bayou Lafourche. He died in Paris in 1888. Among Amans' most famous subjects was President Andrew Jackson, who sat for his portrait in 1840 (the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans).