Jules André (1807–1869) was a French painter. André was born in Paris in 1807, studied under

André Jolivard André Jolivard (15 September 1787, in Le Mans – 8 December 1851, in Paris) was a French landscape painter. Biography His father, Louis-Modeste Jolivard, was a merchant. He was named after his great-uncle and godfather, André Jolivard, who ...

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Louis Étienne Watelet Louis Étienne Watelet (25 August 1780, Paris - 21 June 1866, Paris) was a French landscape painter and art teacher. Biographie His father was a " Marchand-mercier" (entrepreneur). He is generally credited with being an autodidact. The pain ...

, and became a landscape painter of merit. He travelled in Belgium, the south of France, and the Rhine country; and he was also employed at the porcelain manufactory at Sèvres. André painted in a manner halfway between the style of the old French classic landscape painters and that of the modern school. He executed several decorative panels in the new Louvre Palace, and in the Hôtel d'Albe. He obtained a second-class medal in 1835, and the decoration of the Légion d'honneur in 1853. He died at Paris in 1869. The Galleries of the Luxembourg and Lille possess paintings by him. His son, Edmond Maethe Alphonse André (1844–1877), who studied under him, and with Isidore Pils, became a genre painter of some repute. In 1876 he painted a 'Halt of Zouaves at Patay.' Edmond died in Algiers in 1877.

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* 19th-century French painters French male painters 1807 births 1869 deaths Painters from Paris Recipients of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub