François-Auguste Biard

François- Auguste Biard (* October 15, 1798 in Lyon, † June 30, 1882 in Fontainebleau ) was a French painter.

Life

François- Auguste Biard got his first drawing lessons from the painter Pierre Révoil (1776-1842), head of the School of Lyon, who advised him strongly to continue his studies in Paris. On his travels he painted oriental landscapes and genre scenes in the romantic part and ethnographic and factual style.

The genre painter exhibited his works 1818-1861 repeated at the Paris Salon. In 1838 Biard was awarded the Grand- croix de la Légion d' Honneur.