Panoramic view of the Siege of Gdańsk by French forces in 1807

Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort (28 August 1793 – 24 December 1861) was a French artist who painted in both oil and water colours. The French King

Louis-Philippe Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wa ...

commissioned several of his works.

Biography

In 1842, Fort exhibited four canvases of battles and sieges at the

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. They had been ordered by King Louis-Philippe for the " musée historique de Versailles". In the following year, he was commissioned to produce a view of the royal residence (''View of the Palace of Compiègne'' (1843)).

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1793 births 1861 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters French watercolourists 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub