Jacques emile blanche biography

BIOGRAPHY - Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861 - 1942).
– 30 September 1942) was a French artist, largely self-taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris.
French painter and writer.

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Jacques Emile Blanche

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Jacques Emile Blanche

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French painter, portraitist, pastellist and author

Born 1861 - Died 1942

Born in Auteuil (Departement de Ville de Paris, Ile-de-France, France)

Died in Paris (Departement de Ville de Paris, Ile-de-France, France)

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Jacques Émile Blanche, 1861-1942

Identity:

Jacques Emile Blanche was a French portrait painter, art critic and writer. His father was a fashionable nerve specialist and owned a clinic where many of Blanche's sitters had been patients. He married Rose Blanche, née Lemoinne, the daughter of John Lemoinne, founder-publisher of the Journal des Debats.

Life:

Blanche was a very popular artist of his day. He was much influenced by James Tissot, John Singer Sargent and Edouard Manet. JW was also an influence, although Blanche's works tend to be lighter in subject, colour and mood. The loose brushwork and subdued colouring of his portraits are reminiscent of Thomas Gainsborough. Blanche had no formal training and many of his paintings suffered as a result of poor technique. He worked in pastel during the 1880s and 1890s and these are of high quality.

Blanche visited London every year from 1884. He painted many portraits of important literary and society figures including Marcel Proust (1892; private collection, Paris); Aubrey Beardsley (1895; National Portrait Gallery, Lo

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Blanche Jacques-Émile

Biography of Blanche Jacques-Émile ( 1861-1942 )

Jacques-Emile Blanche was a key portrait painter at the end of the 19th century, and used to see very often from his early age the most emblematic artists of his time.

He was one of Stéphane Mallarmé’s pupil in the Lycée Condorcet, where he was English teacher. Blanche received a cosmopolitan education and made friend with Henri Bergson and André Gide. He was such a good pianist that for a long time, he hesitated between painting and music.

Although he followed some lessons at the Academy of painting founded by Ferdinand Humbert and Henri Gervex, Jacques-Emile Blanche can be considered as an autodidact painter. He made his first steps in the society under Count Robert de Montesquieu’s watchful eye and gained quickly a great renown as a portrait painter.

In his beginning, he has been encouraged by Fantin-Latour and Manet and was marked by his social origins (his father was the famous alienist Emile-Antoine Blanche) and by his way of life. Personality of the ‘Tout-Paris’, he knew every striking