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CHARLES GILES BRIDLE DAUBENY (1795-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 847 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:GILES BRIDLE See also:DAUBENY (1795-1867)  , See also:English chemist, botanist and geologist, was the third son of the Rev . See also:James See also:Daubeny, and was See also:born at Stratton in See also:Gloucestershire on encouragement of his admirers in See also:England made up for the disappointment, and the See also:sale of his picture to a Royal Academician greatly pleased him . In 187o–1871 he again visited See also:London, and subsequently See also:Holland, where he painted a number of See also:river scenes with windmills . In 1874, having returned to See also:Paris, he See also:fell See also:ill, and from that See also:time until he died (on the 19th of See also:February 1878) his See also:work won less distinction than before . In 1904 the See also:municipality of Auvers-sur-See also:Oise decided to erect a See also:bronze See also:monument to See also:Daubigny's memory . Daubigny's finest pictures were painted between 1864 and 1874, and these for the most See also:part consist of carefully completed landscapes with trees, river and a few ducks . It has curiously been said, yet with some See also:appearance of truth, that when Daubigny liked his pictures himself he added another See also:duck or two, so that the number of ducks often indicates greater or less See also:artistic quality in his pictures . One of his sayings was, " The best pictures do not sell," as he frequently found his finest achievements little understood . Yet although during the latter part of his See also:life he was considered a highly successful painter, the See also:money value of his pictures since his See also:death has increased nearly tenfold . Daubigny is chiefly preferred in his See also:riverside pictures, of which he painted a See also:great number, but although there are two large landscapes by Daubigny in the Louvre, neither is a river view . They are for that See also:reason not so typical as many of his smaller Oise and See also:Seine pictures . The See also:works of Daubigny are, like See also:Corot's, to be found in many See also:modern collections .

His most ambitious canvases are: " See also:

Spring-time" (1857), in the Louvre; "Borde de la Cure, See also:Morvan" (1864); "VillervillesurMer" (1864); "Moonlight" (1865) ; "Andresysur Oise" (1868); and "Return of the See also:Flock—Moonlight" (1878) . His followers and pupils were his scn Karl (who sometimes painted so well that his works are occasionally mistaken for those of his See also:father, though in few cases do they equal his father's mastery), See also:Oudinot, Delpy and Damoye . See Fred Henriet, C . Daubigny et son oeuvre (Paris, 1878); D . Croal See also:Thomson, The See also:Barbizon School of Painters (London, 189o) ; J . W . Mollett, Daubigny (London, 1890) ; J . See also:Claretie, Peintres et sculpteurs contemporains: Daubigny (Paris, 1882); See also:Albert See also:Wolff, La Capitale de fart: Ch . See also:Francois Daubigny (Paris, 1881) . (D . C .

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