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Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager
Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814–1879) was a French painter, noted for his marine scenes and Orientalist works. Life and career Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager was born at Dol in Brittany in 1814. He studied under Gudin and Eugène Isabey. He was a naval officer who rose to the rank of captain. In 1840, he accompanied the fleet which repatriated Napoleon's remains from St. Helena, and the island afforded him subjects for various paintings. He spent much of his time travelling: He went to Buenos Aires with the squadron, Montevideo in 1841–42 aboard a French warship, and explored Uruguay and Brazil; he accompanied the expeditions to Tangiers and Mogador, and to Madagascar. He painted views of the places he visited, and also naval combats and sea-pieces. In the 1850s, Durand-Brager was in the Crimea during the war with Russia, where he turned his hand to photography as well as painting. He was one of about fifteen photographers, including Felice Beato, Roger Fent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dol-de-Bretagne
Dol-de-Bretagne (, literally ''Dol of Brittany''; ; Gallo: ''Dóu''), cited in most historical records under its Breton name of Dol, is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine ''département'' in Brittany in northwestern France. Geography Dol-de-Bretagne is situated in the northern part of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, 6 km from the English Channel coast and 22 km southeast of Saint-Malo. Dol-de-Bretagne station is served by high speed trains to Rennes and Paris, and regional trains to Saint-Malo, Saint-Brieuc, Granville and Rennes. History ''Dol'' is a Breton term meaning "low and fertile place in the flood plain of a waterway;" cf. Welsh ''dôl'' ("meadow"). In 549, the Welsh Saint Teilo was documented as coming to Dol where he joined Samson of Dol, and the fruit groves which they planted remain and are known as the groves of Teilo and Samson. Legend has it that while there he was assigned by King Budic II to subdue a belligerent winged dragon, which he was said t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robertson (photographer)
James Robertson (1813–1888) was an English gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, and who became a pioneering photographer working in the Crimea and possibly India. He is noted for his Orientalist photographs and for being one of the first war photographers. Life and career Robertson was born in Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Le ... in 1813. He trained as an engraver under Wyon (probably William Wyon). In 1841, he settled in Constantinople where he worked as an "engraver and die-stamper" at the Imperial Ottoman Mint. During this period, he appears to have become interested in photography. By the 1850s, tourist travel to the Near East created strong demand for photographs as souvenirs. A small group of early photographers, mostly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Painters
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Dol-de-Bretagne
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. ** Brahms' Violin Concerto (Brahms), Violin Concerto is premiered in Leipzig with Joseph Joachim as soloist and the composer conducting. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. February * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1814 Births
Events January * January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine. * January 3 ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison surrenders to the British after ten days of bombardment. ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Metz: Allied armies lay siege to the French city and fortress of Metz. * January 5 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Puruarán: Spanish Royalists defeat Mexican Rebels. * January 11 – War of the Sixth Coalition – Battle of Hoogstraten: Prussian forces under Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow defeat the French. * January 14 ** Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway into personal union with Sweden, in exchange for west Pomerania. This marks the end of the real union of Denmark-Norway. ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Antwerp: Allied forces besiege Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Artistic Works With Orientalist Influences
This is an incomplete list of artistic works with Orientalist influences. Art * David Roberts, ''The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia'' (1842) * Théodore Chassériau, '' Arab Chiefs Challenging each other to Single Combat under the Ramparts of a City'' (1852) * Léon Belly, '' Pélerins allant à La Mecque'' (1861) * Gustave Guillaumet, '' Evening Prayer in the Sahara'' (1863) * Alfred Dehodencq, '' Boabdil’s Farewell to Granada'' (1869) * Henri Regnault, '' Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada'' (1870) * Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, '' Le jour des funérailles - Scène du Maroc'' (1889) Literature * ''The Travels of Marco Polo'', 13th century * ''Travels of Sir John Mandeville'', 14th century invented account of travels * Fernão Mendes Pinto, '' Peregrinação'' (1556), the most complete of the early Portuguese written accounts of the Indic, southeast Asia, China and Japan * Christopher Marlowe, ''Tamburlaine'', 1588/89 * John Dryde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Orientalist Artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalism#Orientalist art, Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subjects may not have formed a major part of their body of work. For example, the list includes some portrait painters based in Europe who on occasion painted sitters wearing "oriental" costume. The list also includes Orientalist photographers, engravers and lithographers. The list includes links to the English Wikipedia, and where no English article exists, named artists are linked to foreign language versions of Wikipedia, where available. Note: This listing uses Spanish naming customs, for personalities from cultural areas where they prevail : the first family name is the paternal name and the second is the maternal family name. Artists are listed alphabetically by their paternal family name. For example, the Spanish artist, Joaquín Soro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Thomas-Henry
The Musée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry is a museum at Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche) with around 300 artworks, mainly paintings from the 15th to 19th centuries. It has been rated as the third most important collection in Normandy.�Musée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry », ''www.ville-cherbourg.fr'' History It was formed after a series of anonymous donations to the city between 1831 and 1835, totalling 163 paintings and later revealed to have been made by Thomas Henry, town councillor and art critic France Huser, « Le mécène de la Normandie », ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' n°2022, 6 August 2003 — having lost his two sons, he wanted to allow the city's young people to gain an education in art. These young people included Jean-François Millet, who copied paintings in the museum. In 1835, a museum was formed from these 163 paintings, including works by Italian 'primitives' such as Fra Angelico (''The Conversion of Saint Augustine'') and Filippo Lippi (''The Burial''). The foundatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ironclad Magenta
''Magenta'' was the lead ship of Magenta-class ironclad, her class of two broadside ironclads built for the French Navy () in the early 1860s. She served as flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron (France), Mediterranean Squadron. Design and description The ''Magenta'' class were two-decked ironclad ship of the line, ships of the line, much as the preceding were armored versions of traditional frigates. ''Magenta'' was long, had a beam (nautical), beam of , and a draft (ship), draft of . The ship Displacement (ship), displaced . The ''Magenta''s were equipped with a metal-reinforced, spur-shaped ram, the first ironclads to be fitted with a ram,Campbell, p. 287 and they had a crew of 674 officers and enlisted men.Gille, p. 24 The ''Magenta''-class ships had a single two-cylinder Marine steam engine#Back acting, horizontal-return connecting-rod compound steam engine that drove the propeller shaft,de Balincourt & Vincent-Bréchignac, p. 25 using steam provided by eight boiler (steam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSS Alabama
CSS ''Alabama'' was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy. The vessel was built in Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool, England, by John Laird Sons and Company. Launched as ''Enrica'', she was fitted out as a cruiser and commissioned as CSS ''Alabama'' on August 24, 1862. Under Captain Raphael Semmes, ''Alabama'' served as a successful commerce raider, attacking, capturing, and burning Union merchant and naval ships in the North Atlantic, as well as intercepting American grain ships bound for Europe. The Alabama continued through the West Indies and further into the East Indies, destroying over seven ships before returning to Europe. On June 11, 1864, the ''Alabama'' arrived at Cherbourg, France, where she was overhauled. Shortly after, a Union sloop-of-war, , arrived; and on June 19, the Battle of Cherbourg commenced outside the port of Cherbourg, France, whereby the ''Kearsarge'' sank the Alabama in approximately one hour after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kearsarge (1861)
USS ''Kearsarge'', a ''Mohican''-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider off Cherbourg, France during the American Civil War. Hunting Confederate raiders ''Kearsarge'' was built at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, under the 1861 American Civil War emergency shipbuilding program. The new steam sloop-of-war was launched on 11 September 1861; she was sponsored by Mrs. McFarland, the wife of the editor of the ''Concord Statement'', and was commissioned on 24 January 1862, with Captain Charles W. Pickering in command. Soon after, she was hunting for Confederate raiders in European waters. ''Kearsarge'' was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire. Subsequent ships were later named ''Kearsarge'' in honor of the ship. ''Kearsarge'' departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 5 February 1862 for the coast of Spain. She then sailed to Gibraltar to join the blockade of Confederate raider , fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
