Francis Tattegrain
Francis Tattegrain, born with Fibula in 1852 and died in Arras in 1915, was a painter French.
It is resulting from a long line of magistrates and one of the most former families of Fibula, which explains why the Francis young person receives paternal approval to devote himself to painting only against the promise to start studies of right. It thus obtains brilliantly its doctorate in right for then devoting itself more but to painting.
Its obvious talent opens to him the doors of the workshops of the Lefebvre painters and Lepic. Painter of History, of navy, aquafortist, portraitist, the rewards follow one another throughout his exposures to the Living room of the French Artists of 1875 to 1914. Out of competition to 31 years, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor at 37 years, Edouard Herriot will say of him “the pencil of Ingres, the pallet of Delacroix”. This remarkable “director” obtains the gold medal in 1889 and the medal of honor of the Living room in 1899, as well as the gold medal of the World Fair in 1900.
Taken of an intense love for the sea and the coastal population, Francis Tattegrain belongs to the many artists who settle with Berck at the XIXe century. It marks a preference for the dramatic, tragic subjects even sinister, and it treats them with a simplicity which does not exclude the emotion. Its compositions are often of a bold realism, but always harmonious; its frank painting, its color right, underline these dramas usually returned very indicators by their great dimensions. In 1888, it offers to the Museum Alfred Danicourt and with its fellow-citizens péronnais exceptional a Débris of the Three-masted ship Majestas . Francis Tattegrain dies in the Pas-de-Calais during the First World War. It is the French general BOICHUT who, testifying in his Memories, informs us on this death:
“On January 1st, 1915, the pallet with the hand, illustrates it painter Francis Tattegrain died in 63 years, with the field of honor, whereas it reconstituted, under the shells, the draft of the belfry of Arras. ”
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