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Michel J Cazabon BIOGRAPHY
1813 Trinidad - 1888. Known for: Trinidad scenery painting.
Born in Trinidad, the child of a free-colored family whose origins were in the French West Indies and who moved to Trinidad from Martinique after 1789, Michel Cazabon studied in Europe before setting... Read full biography
Born in Trinidad, the child of a free-colored family whose origins were in the French West Indies and who moved to Trinidad from Martinique after 1789, Michel Cazabon studied in Europe before setting up his studio in Port of Spain in 1848. He soon won the patronage of the Governor, Lord Harris, and... Read full biography
Born in Trinidad, the child of a free-colored family whose origins were in the French West Indies and who moved to Trinidad from Martinique after 1789, Michel Cazabon studied in Europe before setting up his studio in Port of Spain in 1848. He soon won the patronage of the Governor, Lord Harris, and of the wealthy planters Sir James Lamont and William Hardin Burnley, and his career developed in response to the demands of the local market. His output consisted mainly of scenes of Trinidad in... Read full biography
Born in Trinidad, the child of a free-colored family whose origins were in the French West Indies and who moved to Trinidad from Martinique after 1789, Michel Cazabon studied in Europe before setting up his studio in Port of Spain in 1848. He soon won the patronage of the Governor, Lord Harris, and of the wealthy planters Sir James Lamont and William Hardin Burnley, and his career developed in response to the demands of the local market. His output consisted mainly of scenes of Trinidad in watercolor and he produced drawings for two subscription albums of lithographs published in 1851 (Views of Trinidad) and 1857 (Album of Trinidad) as well as contributing to series of lithographs of Demerara and Martinique. Having exhausted his clientele... Read full biography
Born in Trinidad, the child of a free-colored family whose origins were in the French West Indies and who moved to Trinidad from Martinique after 1789, Michel Cazabon studied in Europe before setting up his studio in Port of Spain in 1848. He soon won the patronage of the Governor, Lord Harris, and of the wealthy planters Sir James Lamont and William Hardin Burnley, and his career developed in response to the demands of the local market. His output consisted mainly of scenes of Trinidad in watercolor and he produced drawings for two subscription albums of lithographs published in 1851 (Views of Trinidad) and 1857 (Album of Trinidad) as well as contributing to series of lithographs of Demerara and Martinique. Having exhausted his clientele in Trinidad, Cazabon and his family moved to St. Pierre, Martinique in 1862 in search of new pa... Read full biography
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Born in Trinidad, the child of a free-colored family whose origins were in the French West Indies and who moved to Trinidad from Martinique after 1789, Michel Cazabon studied in Europe before setting up his studio in Port of Spain in 1848. He soon won the patronage of the Governor, Lord Harris, and of the wealthy planters Sir James Lamont and William Hardin Burnley, and his career developed in response to the demands of the local market.
His output consisted mainly of scenes of Trinidad in watercolor and he produced drawings for two subscription albums of lithographs published in 1851 (Views of Trinidad) and 1857 (Album of Trinidad) as well as contributing to series of lithographs of Demerara an...But wait, there's more...
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