Jules Achille Noël, born Louis Assez Noël (24 February 1815,
Quimper
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– 26 March 1881,
Algiers) was a French landscape and maritime painter who worked primarily in
Brittany
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and
Normandy
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.
Biography
His family originally came from
Lorraine
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. Some sources say that he was born there in 1810. His father was a draftsman working on the canal being built from
Nantes to
Brest
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and gave him his first drawing lessons.
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/ref> He later studied at the "Académie de Peinture et de Dessin" (Académie Charioux) in Brest. Afterwards, he went to Paris to seek his fortune and came under the influence of his fellow Breton painter Pierre-Julien Gilbert.[Jules Noël @ Wiki-Brest](_blank)
/ref> After four years of struggling to earn his living, he returned to Brittany to teach drawing in Saint-Pol-de-Léon
Saint-Pol-de-Léon (; br, Kastell-Paol) is a Communes of France, commune in the Finistère Departments of France, department in Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in north-western France, located on the coast.
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, Lorient
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History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginning around 3000 BC, settlements in the area of Lorient are attested by the presen ...
and Nantes.
He had begun to participate in the Salon in 1840 and, in 1845, was one of several artists commissioned to provide engraved illustrations for a book on prisons by Maurice Alhoy
Philadelphe-Maurice Alhoy (1802 – 27 April 1856) was a 19th-century French journalist, writer and playwright, born and died in Paris.
As journalist
Under the Restauration and the July Monarchy, when "every day saw the birth of a new paper" ( ...
entitled ''Les Bagnes: historie types, mystères...''. Eventually, his work attracted the attention of Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours
Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours (Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans; 25 October 1814 – 26 June 1896) was the second son of King Louis-Philippe I of France, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily.
Life
Childhoo ...
, who obtained him a position as a Professor of Design at the Lycée Henri-IV
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The school educates more than ...
, where he would teach from 1847 until his retirement in 1879. Albert Lynch
Albert Lynch (1860–1950) was a Parisian painter of German-Peruvian ancestry.
Biography
Alberto Fernando Lynch was born on 26 September 1860 in Gleisweiler in the Rhineland of Germany, and baptised there on 21 March 1861. His father, Diego Ly ...
and Félix Buhot
Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator.
Biography
Félix Buhot is the son of Florentin Louis Buhot and of Anne Appoline Buhot, born Jobelin.
With his wife Henriette Johnston, they are the par ...
were among his best-known students there.
During school vacations he would return to paint in Brittany. He was in ill-health at the time of his retirement, so he went to live with his daughter and her husband in Algeria and died there.
His style was compared to Eugène Isabey
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (22 July 1803, in Paris – 25 April 1886, in Montévrain) was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style.
Biography
He was born to Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a well known painter wh ...
and he won the praise of Baudelaire. The Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper presented a major retrospective of his works in 2005.La Tribune de l'Art
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Gallery
File:Jules Achille Noël - L'Arrivee d'une Diligence au Tréport (1878).jpg, "L'Arrivee d'une Diligence au Tréport" by Jules Achille Noël. A "Diligence" was a horse-drawn coach.
File:Jules Noël Le rémouleur à Morlaix musée Jacobins.jpg, Jules Noël's painting of a wheelwright at work in a Morlaix street.
File:NoelBrest.jpg, The Port of Brest (1864)
References
External links
ArtNet: More works by Noël
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1815 births
1881 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
French marine artists
Lycée Henri-IV teachers
19th-century French male artists