CHARLES

See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS

See also:

• CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY (1817–1878)

DAUBIGNY (1817–1878)  , French landscape painter, allied in several ways with the Barbizon School, was born in Paris, on the 15th of February 1817, but spent much time as a child at Valmondois, a village on the Oise to the north-west of Paris . Daubigny was the son of an artist, and most of his family were painters . He began to paint very early in life, and at the age of seventeen he took a studio of his own . Within twelve months he had saved enough to go to Italy, where he studied and painted for nearly two years; he then returned to Paris, not to leave it again until, in 186o, he took a house at Anvers on the Oise . By 1837 Daubigny had become famous as a river and landscape painter, although he had been devoting himself as well to drawing in black-and-white, to etching, wood engraving, and lithography . In 1855 his picture, " Lock at Optevoz," now in the Louvre, was purchased by the state; four years later Daubigny was created knight of the Legion of Honour, and in 1874 he was promoted to be an officer . In 1866, at the invitation of Lord, then Mr, Leighton and others,.he visited London, where, however, he was hurt by his now famous " Moonlight " being badly hung in the Old Royal Academy .