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'' 200px, Portrait of Andrés Bello '' Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin (May 31, 1790 – March 26, 1870) was a French artist and painter.


Biography

Monvoisin was born in
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. Although he initiated a career in the military by indication of his father, at the age of eighteen Monvoisin fully dedicated himself to painting. He moved from Bordeaux to
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and was employed at the workshop of Pierre Guérin, with whom he worked in the neoclassic and mythologic themes that were center of attention by artists and scholars at the time. He studied in the
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of France, and his work soon earned him the support of the critics. His works achieved commercial success. He was hired by merchants, bankers and other members of the newly emerging middle-class. In 1819 he carried out his first exposition in the Museum of the
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. The fame he achieved in his own country earned him the
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. After obtaining recognition in Paris, he travelled to
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where he obtained a scholarship to study in
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in Rome. Interested in the opportunities in the newly independent Americas, Monvoisin travelled to
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and from there to
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. He received an official invitation from the Chilean government to direct the Academy of Painting which was officially created on March 17, 1848. With almost no funds, he arrived at
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. Preceded by his fame, he was introduced to the high-class families of the capital and, in turn, to work as a successful portrait painter. His works had a decisive influence in the new Chilean society, which acquired the inclinations of European fashion, especially French. He dedicated his efforts to many different activities during his stay in Chile. He traveled through the country, invested in mines, and created a ranching estate. His first years as a drawing professor in Paris helped in forming notable artists of the time like Francisco Mandiola and Procesa Sarmiento. Along with French painter Clara Filleul, he mobilized the pictorial art in Chile and Argentina. He was elevated to a Knight of the
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in 1857,Biography: or, Third division of "The English encyclopedia" edited by Charles Knight and returned to France in 1858, but his fame had vanished. He died in poverty in 1870 at
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. File:Monvoisin, Raymond - Juana de Arco -ost 142x101 PVergara f02.jpg, ''Jean d'Arc'', 1843 File:Monvoisin, Raymond - Adelaida Corradi de Pantanelli como Norma -ost 113.3x145 MHN f03.jpg, ''Adelaida Corradi de Pantanelli como Norma'', 1845 File:Monvoisin, Raymond - Elisa Bravo Jaramillo -f01.2.jpg, ''Elisa Bravo Jaramillo de Bañados, mujer del cacique'' (''Elisa Bravo en cautiverio''), 1858 File:Monvoisin, Raymond - Naufragio del Joven Daniel -f02 det.jpg, ''Shipwreck of the ''Young Daniel'','' 1859


References

* ''This article is based on a translation from the corresponding article from the
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, dated July 13, 2006.'' * Instituto Cultural de las Condes. ''Precursores extranjeros en la pintura chilena'', Santiago de Chile, 1974. *
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Monvoisin, Raymond 1790 births 1870 deaths Painters from Bordeaux 19th-century French painters French male painters Knights of the Legion of Honour French neoclassical painters French expatriates in Chile 19th-century French male artists