Camille Flers
Illustration — Fishermen's dwellings, 1848 Camille Flers (born in Paris in 1802) was a painter of landscapes and a scholar who studied Joseph François Pâris. His Views of Normandy and The Banks of the Marne and Eure display a great amount of study and power or feeling in the colouring. He died in Annet (Seine-et-Marne) Paris in 1868.
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Camille Flers
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- Born
- Camille Flers was born on 15 February 1802.
- Died
- Camille Flers died on 26 June 1868. · Annet-sur-Marne.
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- France
- Occupation
- painter · photographer · draftsperson · dancer
- Fields
- landscape
- Movements
- French Realism · Barbizon school
- Teachers
- Joseph François Paris
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Fishermen's dwellings, 1848 Camille Flers (born in Paris in 1802) was a painter of landscapes and a scholar who studied Joseph François Pâris. His Views of Normandy and The Banks of the Marne and Eure display a great amount of study and power or feeling in the colouring. He died in Annet (Seine-et-Marne) Paris in 1868.
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He was the instructor of Cabats. In the Louvre is a landscape by this artist of the Environs of Paris. • Illustration — Landscape near Annet-sur-Marne • Illustration — Normandy Road
Training under Joseph François Paris is recorded. Louis-Nicolas Cabat, Alexandre Ségé and David Sutter are recorded as having studied under Camille Flers. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Work by Camille Flers is recorded in the collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper and Bowes Museum. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Camille Flers was born at rue des Amandiers and sources differ (the article records Paris).
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Camille Flers died at Annet-sur-Marne.
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Camille Flers was born at rue des Amandiers.
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