Charles Edouard Boutibonne
Charles Edouard Boutibonne (born July 8, 1816 in Pest , † February 7, 1897 in Wilderswil ) was a French genre and portrait painter .
He was born into a French family based in Hungary. He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Friedrich von Amerling and continued it at the École des beaux-arts de Paris with Achille Devéria and Franz Xaver Winterhalter . As early as 1836 he painted a portrait of Franz Liszt . He made his debut in 1837 at the Salon de Paris . In 1847 he received a gold medal.
In 1854 he made a trip to England. In Windsor Castle, he painted the portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . He spent two years in England. In 1860 he created a ceiling painting in the royal palace of Stuttgart . Then he returned to Paris.
In 1885 he moved to Switzerland and settled in Wilderswil. In the last years of his life he occupied himself with pastel painting .
literature
- Boutibonne, Charles Edouard . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 472 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Charles Edouard Boutibonne. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Boutibonne, Charles Edouard. In: Sikart
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boutibonne, Charles Edouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French genre and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | pest |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1897 |
| Place of death | Wilderswil |