Auguste Edouart
Auguste Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart (1789–1861) was a French-born portrait artist who worked in England, Scotland and the United States in the 19th-century. He specialized in silhouette portraits.
Biography
"Born in Dunkerque, he left France in 1814, and established himself in London, where he began his career making portraits from hair. In 1825, he began work as a silhouette portraitist, taking full-length likenesses in profile by cutting out black paper with scissors. Edouart spent fifteen years touring England and in 1829 arrived in Edinburgh. He remained there for three years, during which time he produced some five thousand likenesses."[1] Edouart travelled in the United States ca.1839-1849, visiting New York, Boston, and other locales.[2][3]
Edouart created portraits of hundreds of subjects, including:
- Samuel Appleton and family[4]
- Fanny Brawne
- Captain Edward Bolton[5]
- William Buckland, Frank Buckland[6]
- Charles Burroughs[7]
- Henry Clay[8]
- John Connell and family[9]
- Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier[10]
- Samuel Freeman[11]
- Samuel Griswold Goodrich[12]
- Sarah Josepha Hale[13]
- Thaddeus Mason Harris[14]
- Robert Knox[15]
- Francis Lieber[16]
- Liston, comedian[17]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[18]
- John Loudoun McAdam[19]
- Stephen Olin[20]
- Theophilus Parsons[21]
- Walter Scott[22]
- Daniel Webster[23]
Works by Edouart reside in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London; National Galleries of Scotland; New York Historical Society;[24] Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Historic New England.
Image gallery
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Cut Silhouette of Four Full Figures, 19th c. (Brooklyn Museum) -
Colin Gibb and Charles Gibb, 19th c. (Brooklyn Museum) -
H.W. Longfellow, 19th c. -
Abbott Lawrence and family, no.5 Park St., Boston, 19th c.
References
- ^ http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp06932&role=art Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ Bolton. 1915
- ^ New York Herald; Date: 11-23-1844
- ^ http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/collections-access Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/collections-access Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ "Connell, John, David, Arthur and Mrs. Approx. 5 ½" x 8" cut by August Edouart in Glasgow, June 10, 1832. Reproduced for the Boston Evening Transcript. Sat. Nov. 4, 1939." http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/silhouettes.htm Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/?initial=E&artistId=3227&artistName=Augustin%20Edouart&submit=1 Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/collections-access Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ Jackson. 1912
- ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/piedmont_fossil/506282921/ Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. April 1912
- ^ http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/?initial=E&artistId=3227&artistName=Augustin%20Edouart&submit=1 Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ Mack and Mack. Like a sponge thrown into water: Francis Lieber's European travel journal of 1844-1845. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2002
- ^ http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ Jackson. 1912
- ^ http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/?initial=E&artistId=3227&artistName=Augustin%20Edouart&submit=1 Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=record_ID:npg_NPG.91.126.35.B Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ Jackson. 1912
- ^ Jackson. 1912
- ^ http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp Retrieved 2010-09-05
- ^ http://emuseum.nyhistory.org/code/emuseum.asp Retrieved 2010-09-05
Further reading
- Edouart. A Treatise on Silhouette Likenesses by Monsieur Edouart, Silhouettist to the French Royal Family, and patronized by His Royal Highness, the late Duke of Gloucester and the principal Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1835
- The Man Who Saved His Life by Giving His Body for Dissection. Barre Gazette (Massachusetts); Date: 03-28-1845
- Andrew W. Tuer. Art of Silhouetting. English illustrated magazine. 1890. Google books
- Nevill Jackson. Some men of letters in silhouette. The Bookman, Jan. 1912. Google books
- Ethel Stanwood Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915. Google books
- Alice Van Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Google books
- Andrew Oliver. Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1977
- Penley Knipe. Shades and Shadow-Pictures: The Materials and Techniques of American Portrait Silhouettes. 1999. http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v18/bp18-07.html
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to August Edouart.
- WorldCat
- Smithsonian. Auguste Edouart Self-Portrait, 1843
- Flickr. Portrait by Edouart of Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788–1879)
- http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003656333
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/graceewhite/2466201020/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/20939975@N04/2284569990/
- http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=1410