Mulhouse Mulhouse (; ; Alsatian language, Alsatian: ''Mìlhüsa'' ; , meaning "Mill (grinding), mill house") is a France, French city of the European Collectivity of Alsace (Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region of France). It is near the Fran ...

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Jean Benner-Fries Jean Benner-Fries, also known as Jean Benner and Jean Benner the elder (1796–1849), was a French painter and textile designer.John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins.
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'. C. Scribner's sons; 1913. p. 139.
Rehs Galleries. Retrieved March 6, 2014.

Career

The Benner brothers were first designers at Mulhouse mills and factories. By 30 years of age, Jean was able to study art with

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (; 20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 ...

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Jean-Jacques Henner Jean-Jacques Henner (5 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits. Biography Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his stud ...

and exhibited at the

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in 1868. In 1881 he won his first medal there for this painting ''Le Repos.''
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'. Stanton and Van Vliet Company; 1917. p. 36. He painted still-life, portrait and genre paintings, including ''After a Storm at Capri'' (1872), ''Trappist in Prayer'' (1875), ''Petite Falle de Capri, Flowers and Fruits'' (1868), and ''Reverie''. He also painted in the Isle of

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, which was an artist colony at that time, its residents included

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Walter McLaren Walter Stowe Bright McLaren (17 April 1853 – 29 June 1912) was a British Liberal Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Crewe division of Cheshire for a total of 11 years between 1886 and 1912. He was the youngest chi ...

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John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 15, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era, Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil ...

, Edouard Alexandre Sain, and

Sophie Gengembre Anderson Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 – 10 March 1903) was a French-born British Victorian painter who was also active in the United States for extended periods. She specialised in genre paintings of children and women, typically in rural settings. ...

.''Sophie Anderson.''
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Works

*''A house in

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'', 1881, Fine Arts Museum, Pau *''Women of Capri'', 1882, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse. Remarkable for its heroic size, quite unusual for a

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: by . *''Briseis weeping over the body of Patroclus'', 1878, château-musée, Nemours *''Ecstasy'', ,

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*''Girl in Capri'', 1906, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes *''Hollyhocks'', Musée d'art et d'archéologie, Senlis *''Les Pêcheurs'', Musée d'art moderne André Malraux,

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*''Portrait of

Jean-Jacques Henner Jean-Jacques Henner (5 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits. Biography Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his stud ...

'', 1899, Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse *''Portrait of Emmanuel Benner'', Fine Arts Museum of Nantes *''Salomé'', Fine Arts Museum of Nantes *''To France, always'', Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse

Gallery

File:Jean Benner - The Wreck or The Italian (1879).jpg, ''The Wreck'', or ''The Italian'', 1879, Musée Petiet de Limoux Salome Jean Benner c1899.jpg, ''Salomé'', ca. 1899, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes File:Jean Benner-Portrait de Jean-Jacques Henner.jpg, ''Portrait of

Jean-Jacques Henner Jean-Jacques Henner (5 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits. Biography Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his stud ...

'', 1899 File:Jeune fille de Capri (Benner, 1906).jpg, Girl in Capri, 1906, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes File:Jean Benner - Un coin d'ombre a Capri.jpg, A dark corner in Capri File:Jean Benner, L'Extase ( Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg ).JPG, ''Ecstasy'',

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File:Jean Benner-A la France toujours.jpg, ''To France, always'' File:Jean Benner - Study of Flowers.jpg, ''Study of Flowers'', oil on canvas,

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File:BENNER Jean Portrait de fillette Huile sur toile.jpg, Little girl,

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References

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