François-Auguste Biard
Francois Auguste Biard - Fight with Polar Bears
Walrus hunt by François-Auguste Biard, 1840
François-Auguste Biard (Lyon, 15 October 1799 – Les Plâtreries, Samois-sur-Seine,[1][2] 30 June 1882) was a French genre painter.
His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant (1993). Biard was a known abolitionist against the Atlantic slave trade. He travelled extensively around the world. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups like in Sea Sickness on a British Corvet (Dallas Museum of Art).
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Biard, Auguste François". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
External links
- Cooper, Thompson (1884). "Biard, Auguste François". Men of the Time (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. pp. 117–118.
- Biard, Auguste François, 1798-1882. Deux années au Brésil (collab.: Riou, Edouard, 1833-1900) . Paris : Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1862. (Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin; Universidade de São Paulo).
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