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1826 St. Malo, France - 1898 France. Known for: Frontier genre, mural, portrait paintings.
A painter in a highly detailed, traditional style, Ernest Narjot painted landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, and several murals for churches and public buildings. By the 1880s, he was considered... Read full biography
A painter in a highly detailed, traditional style, Ernest Narjot painted landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, and several murals for churches and public buildings. By the 1880s, he was considered one of California's foremost painters and also illustrated books of early California life. He was born... Read full biography
A painter in a highly detailed, traditional style, Ernest Narjot painted landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, and several murals for churches and public buildings. By the 1880s, he was considered one of California's foremost painters and also illustrated books of early California life. He was born in St. Malo, France with the full name of Ernest Etienne Narjot and was raised in Paris by artist parents. He received formal art training there but was distracted from that pursuit by his interest... Read full biography
A painter in a highly detailed, traditional style, Ernest Narjot painted landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, and several murals for churches and public buildings. By the 1880s, he was considered one of California's foremost painters and also illustrated books of early California life. He was born in St. Malo, France with the full name of Ernest Etienne Narjot and was raised in Paris by artist parents. He received formal art training there but was distracted from that pursuit by his interest in gold mining, which lured him to America. He was part of the California Gold Rush of 1849 but was unsuccessful. For thirteen years, he was with a mining expedition to Mexico and painted mining and landscapes along the Arizona border. He also married... Read full biography
A painter in a highly detailed, traditional style, Ernest Narjot painted landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, and several murals for churches and public buildings. By the 1880s, he was considered one of California's foremost painters and also illustrated books of early California life. He was born in St. Malo, France with the full name of Ernest Etienne Narjot and was raised in Paris by artist parents. He received formal art training there but was distracted from that pursuit by his interest in gold mining, which lured him to America. He was part of the California Gold Rush of 1849 but was unsuccessful. For thirteen years, he was with a mining expedition to Mexico and painted mining and landscapes along the Arizona border. He also married a Mexican woman, Santos Ortiz. By 1865, he settled in San Francisco where he had a studio on Clay Street... Read full biography
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About Ernest Etienne Narjot: Keywords
Keywords (41)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Chinatown in Any North American City
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mining Scenes, Mining Towns, Miners
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Pikes Peak, Colorado
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •California Before 1940
- •Catalina Island
- •Europe
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Southern California Before 1900
Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Art School
- •California School of Design/Mark Hopkins Institute, Teaching
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •C. R. Smith Collection-Western
Added Description
- •Career Interrupted by California Earthquake, Fire 1906
- •Genre Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Narrative Specialty
- •Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association