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Theodore Antoine Gudin BIOGRAPHY
1802 Paris, France - 1880 Boulogne-sur-Seine, France. Known for: Marine, industrial scene and tumultous storm cloud scene painting.
A student of Anne-Louis Girodet and Antoine-Jean Gros at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Théodore Gudin was the most celebrated marine painter of the first half of the 19th century. He began... Read full biography
A student of Anne-Louis Girodet and Antoine-Jean Gros at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Théodore Gudin was the most celebrated marine painter of the first half of the 19th century. He began exhibiting at the Salons in 1822, and two years later won a first-class medal. Gudin achieved his first... Read full biography
A student of Anne-Louis Girodet and Antoine-Jean Gros at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Théodore Gudin was the most celebrated marine painter of the first half of the 19th century. He began exhibiting at the Salons in 1822, and two years later won a first-class medal. Gudin achieved his first successes as a painter of seascapes and naval subjects, with his painting of The Fire on the Kent receiving huge praise at the Salon of 1827 and earning the artist the Legion of Honour from Charles X.... Read full biography
A student of Anne-Louis Girodet and Antoine-Jean Gros at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Théodore Gudin was the most celebrated marine painter of the first half of the 19th century. He began exhibiting at the Salons in 1822, and two years later won a first-class medal. Gudin achieved his first successes as a painter of seascapes and naval subjects, with his painting of The Fire on the Kent receiving huge praise at the Salon of 1827 and earning the artist the Legion of Honour from Charles X. Among his significant commissions was a series of paintings of views of French ports for Versailles, a project first awarded to and begun by Claude-Joseph Vernet, while for Louis Philippe he painted a series of nearly one hundred large paintings... Read full biography
A student of Anne-Louis Girodet and Antoine-Jean Gros at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Théodore Gudin was the most celebrated marine painter of the first half of the 19th century. He began exhibiting at the Salons in 1822, and two years later won a first-class medal. Gudin achieved his first successes as a painter of seascapes and naval subjects, with his painting of The Fire on the Kent receiving huge praise at the Salon of 1827 and earning the artist the Legion of Honour from Charles X. Among his significant commissions was a series of paintings of views of French ports for Versailles, a project first awarded to and begun by Claude-Joseph Vernet, while for Louis Philippe he painted a series of nearly one hundred large paintings depicting victories of the French Navy, also for Versailles; several of these were exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1839 and 1848.... Read full biography
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Baron Jean Antoine Theodore Gudin, Jean-Antoine Theodore Gudin
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A student of Anne-Louis Girodet and Antoine-Jean Gros at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Théodore Gudin was the most celebrated marine painter of the first half of the 19th century. He began exhibiting at the Salons in 1822, and two years later won a first-class medal. Gudin achieved his first successes as a painter of seascapes and naval subjects, with his painting of The Fire on the Kent receiving huge praise at the Salon of 1827 and earning the artist the Legion of Honour from Charles X.
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