Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort

Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort (28 August 1793 24 December 1861)[1] was a French artist who painted in both oil and water colours.[2] The French King Louis-Philippe commissioned several of his works.

Panoramic view of the Siege of Gdańsk by French forces in 1807 by Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort

Biography

In 1842 Fort exhibited four canvases of battles and sieges at the Salon. They had been ordered by King Louis-Philippe for the "musée historique de Versailles".[3] The following year he was commissioned to produce a view of the royal residence (View of the Palace of Compiègne (1843)).[4]

Notes

  1. John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 73.
  2. Artnet staff.
  3. Starcky 2012, p. 3.
  4. Starcky 2012, p. 5.

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