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FELIX BRACQUEMOND (1833— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 369 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELIX See also:BRACQUEMOND (1833— )  , See also:French painter and etcher, was See also:born in See also:Paris . He was trained in See also:early youth as a See also:trade lithographer, until See also:Guichard, a See also:pupil of See also:Ingres, took him to his studio . His portrait of his grandmother, painted by him at the See also:age of nineteen, attracted See also:Theophile See also:Gautier's See also:attention at the See also:Salon . He applied himself to See also:engraving and See also:etching about 1853, and played a leading and brilliant See also:part in the revival of the etcher's See also:art in See also:France . Altogether he has produced over eight See also:hundred plates, comprising portraits, landscapes, scenes of contemporary See also:life, and See also:bird-studies, besides numerous interpretations of other artists' paintings, especially those of See also:Meissonier, Gustave See also:Moreau and See also:Corot . After having been attached to the Sevres See also:porcelain factory in 1870, he accepted a See also:post as art manager of the Paris atelier of the See also:firm of Haviland of See also:Limoges . He was connected by a See also:link of firm friendship with See also:Manet, See also:Whistler, and all the other fighters in the impressionist cause, and received all the honours that await the successful artist in France, including the grade of officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1889 .

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