See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:JOSEPH JACQUES See also:TISSOT (1836-1902)
, See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Nantes on the 15th of See also:October 1836
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He studied at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts in See also:Paris under See also:Ingres, See also:Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the See also:Salon for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at the See also:age of twenty-three
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In 1861 he showed "The See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
Meeting of See also:Faust and See also:Marguerite, " which was See also:purchased by the See also:state for the Luxembourg See also:Gallery
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His first characteristic See also:period made him a painter of the charms of See also:women
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Demimondaine would be more accurate as a description of the See also:series of studies which he called La Remme a Paris
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He fought
in the Franco-See also:German See also:War, and, falling under suspicion as a Communist, See also:left Paris for See also:London
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Here he studied See also:etching with See also:Sir See also:Seymour See also:Haden, See also:drew caricatures for Vanity See also:Fair, and painted portraits as well as genre subjects
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It was many years before he turned to the See also:chief labour of his career—the See also:production of a series of 700 See also:water-See also:colour drawings to illustrate the See also:life of See also:Christ and the Old Testament
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Some sudden See also:shock or bereavement was said to have turned his thoughts from ideals of the cafe and the See also:boulevard into a more serious channel
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He disappeared from Paris, whither he had returned after a stay of some years in See also:England, and went to See also:Palestine
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In 1895 the series of 350 drawings of incidents in the life of Christ was exhibited in Paris, and the following See also:year found them on show in London
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They were then published by the See also:firm of See also:Lemercier in Paris, who had paid him 1,1oo,000 francs for them
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After this he turned to the scenes of the Old Testament, upon which he was still engaged at the See also:abbey of Buillon, in the See also:department of See also:Doubs, See also:France, when he died on the 8th of See also:August 1902
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The merits of See also:Tissot's See also:Bible illustrations See also:lay rather in the care with which he studied the details of scenery than in any quality of religious emotion
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He seemed to aim, above all, at accuracy, and, in his figures, at a vivid See also:realism, which was far removed from the conventional treatment of sacred types
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