Eugène Lami
Eugène Louis Lami ( born January 12, 1800 Paris, † December 19, 1890 ) was a French painter.
Lami was a pupil in the studio of Antoine -Jean Gros and Horace Vernet, and could with their support later visit the École des Beaux -Arts. After completing his studies there Lami was a private tutor for some time and taught several prince of Orléans in the watercolor painting.
He undertook several traveling extensively throughout much of Europe. 1854 remained Lami in the Crimea, where he was an eyewitness of the Crimean War, and it also painted several pictures. And after several years Another important journey took him through England and Scotland.
Lami was in 1837 appointed Knight and 1863 Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Reception
While early works, among others in Lamis Lithographs dominated, he later moved into the main thing for oil painting. In his travels meistels watercolors created. His subjects he found in the everyday life of the height heren society and in the history of the country, or the area that he traveled straight. Even Alfred de Musset by works, he was inspired to often.
Works (selection)
- The Prodigal Son.
- A dinner in the theater hall in Versailles. (Palais du Luxembourg )
- Interior of a Church (Palais du Luxembourg )
- Charles I receives on his work to the dungeon a rose.
- Mary Stuart at the funeral Darnley.
- Abdication of Mary Stuart (watercolor )
- The Battle of the Alma ( 1855)
- The attack of Fieschi
- The Battle of Hondschoote (1793)
- The capitulation of Antwerp on August 17, 1535
- Oliver Cromwell
- The reformer John Knox to Mary Stuart.
- The coronation of Nicholas I.