Blanche, Jacques-Émile
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| born on | 31 January 1861 at 01:00 (= 01:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Paris Arrondissement 16, France, 48n5146, 2e1634 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m2e1634 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   11°12'   09°36 Asc. 10°00'
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Biography
French artist born in Paris 16, 1 rue de Seine de Passy. Blanche's father was a successful psychiatrist who ran a fashionable clinic, and he was brought up in the rich Parisian neighborhood of Passy in a house that had belonged to the Princesse de Lamballe.
Although Blanche received some instruction in painting from Henri Gervex, he may be regarded as self-taught. He became a very successful portrait painter, with a style derived from 18th-century English painters such as Thomas Gainsborough as well as Édouard Manet and John Singer Sargent. He worked in London, where he spent time from 1870 on, as well as Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. One of his closest friends was Marcel Proust, who helped edit several of Blanche's publications. He also knew Henry James and is mentioned in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Among the painter's most famous works are portraits of his father, Marcel Proust (private collection, Paris), the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Aubrey Beardsley (National Portrait Gallery, London), and Yvette Guilbert and the infamous beauty Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione whom his father had treated for mental illness.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Gregory, Robert (born 20 May 1881)
Events
Source Notes
BC in hand Didier Geslain collection, file peintres, photo 17
Categories
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist (painter)
