About Jules-Emile Saintin

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Jules Emile Santin
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    Jules-Émile Saintin (14 August 1829 – 13 July 1894) was a neoclassic* French painter. He was born in Lemé (France). Jules Émile Saintin was a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling and François-Édouard Picot at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts* in Paris in 1845.

    In 1850, he studied at the Salon des Artistes Français* (Salon of French Artists) and by 1853 was doing pencil portraits.



    In April 1854, Saintin went to live and work in the United States, where he painted portraits, landscapes and Indian subjects, including a portrait of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States who served from 1857–1861.

    Saintin returned to Paris in 1860 and developed a workshop where he made paintings with Ame...

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