Alfred Agache (painter)

Alfred -Pierre Joseph Agache, better known as Alfred Agache ( born August 29, 1843 in Lille, † September 15, 1915 ) was a French academic painter of the Belle Époque.

Life

Alfred Agaches family was wealthy. His father was gifted musically and picturesquely. However, his family refused a musical education for Alfred Agache, but furthered his artistic vocation as a painter.

About the life of Alfred Agache, until his death regularly exhibited his work in Paris, is little known. Agache who specialized in portraits and large-scale allegorical paintings. With the American painter James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and the writer Auguste Angellier (1848-1911), who dedicated him a book, he formed a close friendship. Until his death in 1915 he held the office of Conservateur général des Musées de Lille.

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