Albert Lynch

Albert Lynch
Born 1851
Trujillo, Peru
Died 1912[1]
Monaco
Nationality Peru
Occupation Painter

Albert Lynch (1851–1912) was a Peruvian painter.

Biography

A 1903 engraving of Joan of Arc by Lynch featured in the Figaro Illustre magazine

Albert Lynch was born in 1851 in Trujillo, Peru. He settled in Paris, where he studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts. Lynch worked under the guidance of painters Jules Achille Noël, Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Lehmann. He showed his artwork in the Salon in 1890 and 1892 and in the Exposition Universelle of 1900 during which he received a gold medal.

The women of his time were his favorite subject to paint and he preferred pastel, gouache and watercolor although he occasionally worked in the oil technique. His work maintained the spirit of the Belle Époque. He illustrated such books as Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac and La Parisienne by Henry Becque.

There is a great deal of disagreement about the dates and places of his birth and death. It is possible, for example, to find sources that say he was born in Germany and that he lived well into the 1930s (or even longer).

References

  1. "Albert Lynch". artrenewal.org.
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