Felix Bracquemond
Felix Bracquemond (1833 with Paris - 1914 with Sevres) is a French painter and impressionist engraver.
It has in its youth a training of lithographer, until Guichard, takes a pupil of Ingres, it in its workshop. Its portrait of his/her grandmother, carried out whereas it was 19 years old, draws with the living room the attention of Théophile Gautier. It practices engraving and the sketch as from 1853, and takes a brilliant share with the revival of engraving in France. It creates more than 800 engravings, of which portraits, landscapes, scenes of the daily newspaper, birds, as well as many interpretations of works of other artists, in particular Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Gustave Moreau and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
After having worked for the manufacture of Porcelain of Sevres in 1970, it accepts the artistic position of director of the Parisian workshop of the Haviland firm of Limoges. He is a friend close to Edouard Manet, James McNeill Whistler and many impressionists.
He received all the rewards which the famous artists in France receive, of which the rank of officer of the Légion of honor in 1889.
He marries Marie Bracquemond in 1869.
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