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Doudelet, Charles  

Jean-Pierre de Bruyn

Publication History:

Published online:
2003
Collection:
Grove Art Online

(b Lille, Feb 8, 1861; d Ghent, Jan 7, 1938).

Belgian painter, sculptor, illustrator, and stage designer. He studied music at the Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium and sculpture at the Gewerbeschule, Ghent (after 1877). He visited Paris in 1887 and Italy in 1890, with a grant from the city of Ghent. He was deeply impressed by the masters of the Quattrocento, and was encouraged to take up painting after meeting Constantin Meunier (1891). He painted Symbolist scenes and was influenced by Art Nouveau. After exhibiting his work with Les XX in Brussels (1893), he made decorative panels for Oostakker Castle.

As an illustrator Doudelet worked on Pol De Mont’s Van Jezus (Antwerp, 1897) and books by Maurice Maeterlinck, for example Douze chansons (Paris, 1896) and Pelléas et Mélisande (Brussels, 1892 or 1922). He illustrated the periodicals Réveil (1895–1896), De Vlaamsche school, Mercure de France, Pan, L’Eroica, Nuovo Convito, De Vlaamsche School, Woord en beeld...

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Dugourc, Jean Démosthène  

Publication History:

Published online:
31 October 2011
Collection:
Benezit Dictionary of Artists

French, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1749, in Versailles; died 1825, in Paris.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, sculptor, draughtsman (wash), engraver, decorative artist. Mythological subjects, allegorical subjects, historical portraits, hunting scenes, interiors with figures, gardens. Stage costumes and sets, furniture, designs for fabrics, frontispieces.

Dugourc's father, who was in the service of the Duke of Orléans, had a considerable fortune. Dugourc was permitted to attend the lessons taken by the Duke of Chartres (the future Philippe-Égalité), and at the age 15 left for Rome, attached to the embassy of the Count of Cani. From his infancy, he had shown an aptitude for drawing, perspective and architecture. However, the death of his mother, followed shortly after by the loss of his father's fortune, changed his life. From being an amateur, Dugourc became a professional artist, and executed paintings, sculptures and engravings. In a work published in ...

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Lamartine, Marianne de  

Publication History:

Published online:
31 October 2011
Collection:
Benezit Dictionary of Artists

British, 19th century, female.

Active in France.

Born 1790; died 1863.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, sculptor, draughtswoman, illustrator, musician.

Marianne de Lamartine was of English origin and married Alphonse de Lamartine on 6 June 1820 and lived in France. An exhibition was dedicated to her in ...

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Ricketts, Charles de Sousy  

Publication History:

Published online:
31 October 2011
Collection:
Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 2 October 1866, in Geneva, to an English father and a French mother; died 7 October 1931, in London.

Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator. Historical subjects, mythological subjects. Stage costumes and sets.

Son of the painter Robert Ricketts, Charles de Sousy Ricketts studied at the Lambeth School and went on to co-found alongside C.H. Shannon a journal entitled ...

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Sironi, Mario  

Emily Braun

Publication History:

Published online:
2003
Collection:
Grove Art Online

(b Sassari, Sardinia, May 12, 1885; d Milan, Aug 13, 1961).

Italian painter, sculptor, architect, stage designer and illustrator. He was brought up in Rome where his family moved in 1886. In 1902 Sironi enrolled in the Engineering Faculty of the University of Rome, but after a long illness abandoned his studies to devote himself to painting. In 1903 he attended the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and frequented the studio of Giacomo Balla. Following a short spell in Milan in 1905–6, he travelled to Paris in 1906 and shared a room with his close friend Umberto Boccioni. Several family and self-portraits painted in a divisionist technique (see Divisionism) date from this period. Sironi also visited Germany several times between 1908 and 1911, where he was exposed to contemporary Expressionist currents. He lived in Rome from 1909 until he moved to Milan in late 1914 or early 1915.

Sironi experimented with Futurism from ...