Alexandre-Marie Colin

Presumably a self-portrait of Colin

Photograph of Colin at a later age

Alexandre-Marie Colin, a French painter of historical and genre subjects, was born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet. His religious and historical paintings are characterised by a style based on a careful study of the old masters, while his genre pieces are vigorous and lifelike. Amongst these latter may be noticed his 'French Fish-Market' (1832) in the Berlin Gallery, and his 'Gipsies Resting.' Amongst the former may be named a 'Christopher Columbus,' a 'Flight into Egypt,' and an 'Assumption of the Virgin.' He died in 1875.

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  Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington, now in the Ashmolean Museum
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  Othello and Desdemona, 1829
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  Portrait of Théodore Géricault, 1816

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Colin, Alexandre Marie". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.