Guillaume Seignac
Guillaume Seignac (* 1870 in Rennes , † 1924 in Paris ) was a French genre, portrait and history painter .
Guillaume Seignac studied at the Académie Julian and at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts with Gabriel Ferrier , Tony Robert-Fleury and William Adolphe Bouguereau .
Seignac almost exclusively painted portraits of women and nudes, often with mythological and antique motifs. He was influenced by the works of English academism painters Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Albert Joseph Moore .
He exhibited regularly at the Salon des artistes français , where he was awarded an honorable mention in 1900 and a third class medal in 1903.
Guillaume Seignac was a member of the École d ' Écouen , a group of artists who visited this town.
From 1902 he worked in the studio at 84 Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris.
literature
- Cécile Ritzenthaler, L'École des beaux-arts du XIXe siècle: les pompiers , Paris, Mayer, 1987, p. 335 p ISBN 2-85299-002-4
- Gérard Schurr, Les petits maîtres de la peinture , Éditions L'Amateur, 1989.
- Busse 1977, p. 1145
- Witt Checklist 1978, p. 282
- Bénézit 1999, vol. 12, p. 647
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seignac, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French genre, portrait and history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rennes |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1924 |
| Place of death | Paris |