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

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commissioned several of his works.

Biography

Fort was a student of the landscape painter . 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