Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
French Academic Painter, 1815-1891,French painter, sculptor and illustrator. Although he was briefly a student of Jules Potier (1796-1865) and Leon Cogniet, Meissonier was mainly self-taught and gained experience by designing wood-engravings for book illustrations. These included Leon Curmer's celebrated edition of J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (Paris, 1838), the series Les Franeais peints par eux-memes (Paris, 1840-42) and Louis de Chevigne's Les Contes remois (Paris, 1858). Related Paintings of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier :. | Jean-Baptiste de Roll-Montpellier enfant | Dimensions and material of painting | The Card Players | Leland Stanford, | The End of the Game | Related Artists: Alessandro Magnasco(February 4, 1667 - March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian Rococo painter from Northern Italy. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.
Barthel Bruyn the ElderGerman Northern Renaissance Painter, 1493-1555 William George Richardsonartist (b at Nottingham, Eng 12 June 1833; d at Sussex, NB 18 Nov 1889)
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