An animalier (, ) is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of

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Animal painter An animal painter is an artist who specialises in (or is known for their skill in) the portrayal of animals. The '' OED'' dates the first express use of the term "animal painter" to the mid-18th century: by English physician, naturalist and wr ...

" is the more general term for earlier artists. Although the work may be in any genre or format, the term is most often applied to

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and

painters Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. ''Animalier'' as a collective plural noun, or ''animalier bronzes'', is also a term in

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for small-scale sculptures of animals, of which large numbers were produced, often mass-produced, primarily in 19th-century

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and to a lesser extent elsewhere in continental Europe. Although many earlier examples can be found, animalier sculpture became more popular, and reputable, in early 19th-century

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with the works of

Antoine-Louis Barye Antoine-Louis Barye (24 September 179525 June 1875) was a Romantic French sculptor most famous for his work as an ''animalier'', a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the known sculptor Alfred Barye. Biography Born in Paris, France, Ba ...

(1795–1875), for whom the term was coined, derisively, by critics in 1831, and of Émile-Coriolan Guillemin. By the mid-century, a taste for animal subjects was very widespread among all sections of the middle classes.

Prominent animaliers

Painters

* Richard Ansdell *

Nicasius Bernaerts Nicasius Bernaerts, Monsù Nicasio or simply Nicasius(1620, Antwerp – 1678, Paris) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish Animalier, painter of animals, hunting pieces and flowers who had an international career in Italy and Paris. He worked for ...

Jean-Baptiste Berré Jean-Baptiste Berré or Jan Baptist Berré Antwerp, 11 February 1777 – Paris, 6 May 1839) was a Flemish painter and sculptor.Pieter Boel Pieter Boel or Peeter Boel (baptized on 10 October 1622 – 3 September 1674) was a Flemish painter, printmaker and tapestry designer. He specialised in lavish still lifes and animal paintings. He moved to Paris, where he worked in the gobel ...

Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include ''Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fir ...

* Jacques Raymond Brascassat * Pieter Casteels III * David de Coninck * Alexandre-François Desportes * Jan Fyt * Jacob van der Kerckhoven * Carstian Luyckx * Jean-Baptiste Oudry * Melchior d'Hondecoeter * Charles Jacque * Paul Jouve * Edwin Landseer * Frans Snyders * Julia Wernicke

Sculptors

* Silvio Apponyi * Carl Akeley * Alphonse-Alexandre Arson * Alfred Barye *

* André-Vincent Becquerel *

Jean-Baptiste Berré Jean-Baptiste Berré or Jan Baptist Berré Antwerp, 11 February 1777 – Paris, 6 May 1839) was a Flemish painter and sculptor.Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include ''Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fir ...

* Solon Borglum * Antoine-Félix Bouré * Rembrandt Bugatti * Auguste Cain * Victor Chemin * Paul Comolèra * Joseph Csaky * Paul Edouard Delabrierre, Paul-Édouard Delabrièrre * Alfred Dubucand * Ivan Efimov * Anton Dominik Fernkorn * Christopher Fratin * Emmanuel Frémiet * Georges Gardet * August Gaul * Raymond Gayrard * Thomas Gechter * Robert Glassby * Willis Good * Émile-Coriolan Guillemin * Anna Hyatt Huntington * Herbert Haseltine * Gaston d'Illiers * Henri Alfred Jacquemart * Bohumil Kafka * Edward Kemeys * Albert Laessle * Gertrude Lathrop * Prosper Lecourtier * Pierre Lenordez * Edouard Martinet * Clovis Edmond Masson * Pierre-Jules Mêne * Léon Mignon * Jules Moigniez * Auguste Ottin * Charles Paillet * Daniel Parker (artist), Daniel Parker * Ferdinand Pautrot * Jules Pautrot * François Pompon * Edward Clark Potter * Alexander Phimister Proctor * Louis Riche * Frederick Roth * Pierre Louis Rouillard * Edouard-Marcel Sandoz * Auguste Trémont * Paul Troubetzkoy * Pierre-Nicolas Tourgueneff * Charles Valton * Vasily Vatagin * Katharine Lane Weems

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Animalier Animal artists, Animalier Antiques 19th century in art