Evert Louis van Muyden (18 July 1853 Albano,

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– 27 February 1922

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) was an engraver, illustrator and painter, born to Swiss parents. His brothers, Albert-Steven van Muyden (1849-1910) and Henri van Muyden (1860-1936) were also artists.

Biography

At first studying with his father, the painter

Jacques Alfred van Muyden Jacques Alfred van Muyden (22 October 1818, Lausanne - 11 May 1898, Geneva) was a Swiss history, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and a co-founder of the "". Biography His mother was Swiss, but his father was a Dutchman from Utrecht. His fa ...

(1818–1898), Evert later lived and studied in

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at the Beaux-Arts, under

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and under

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...

at the

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Beaux-Arts. He worked in

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between 1879 and 1884, concentrating on landscapes, and showing the clear influence of

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. After 1885, he worked in Paris painting animals in the style of

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. He virtually lived at the ''Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle'' in Paris and the ''Zoologischer Garten'' in Basle, creating hundreds of drawings and engravings of plants and animals. He was sought after as an illustrator of books, providing images for

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's ''Contes choisis'' (Paris, 1899) and

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's ''Die Kriegstaten der Schweizer'' (Neuchatel, 1905). His engravings and book illustrations remained popular, overshadowing his occasional portraits and sculptures.

Gallery

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References

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