Eugène Lami
Illustration — An 1890 illustration of Lami Eugène Louis Lami (12 January 1800 – 19 December 1890) was a French painter and lithographer. He was a painter of fashionable Paris during the period of the July Monarchy and the Second French Empire and also made history paintings and illustrations for books such as Gil Blas and Manon Lescaut.
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Eugène Lami

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- Born
- Eugène Lami was born on 12 January 1800. · Paris.
- Died
- Eugène Lami died on 19 December 1890. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- Eugène Lami is recorded with the occupation painter.
- Fields
- history.
- Teachers
- Horace Vernet.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — An 1890 illustration of Lami Eugène Louis Lami (12 January 1800 – 19 December 1890) was a French painter and lithographer. He was a painter of fashionable Paris during the period of the July Monarchy and the Second French Empire and also made history paintings and illustrations for books such as Gil Blas and Manon Lescaut.
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Training under Horace Vernet is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Eugène Lami is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Victoria, Nationalmuseum and Museu de les Arts Decoratives. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
He worked at the studio of Horace Vernet then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Camille Roqueplan and Paul Delaroche under Antoine-Jean Gros. While there, he learned watercolor technique from Richard Parkes Bonington and later became a founding member of the Society of French Watercolorists. Lami began working in lithography and in 1819 produced a set of 40 lithographs depicting the Spanish cavalry. These, plus a collaboration with Vernet on a large set of lithographs titled Collections des uniformes des armées françaises de 1791 à 1814 helped build a reputation for doing military scenes which transferred to his paintings. His 1829 painting of Charles I of England as he was being led to imprisonment in Carisbrooke Castle was purchased by Louis-Philippe of France and was on display in the French National Assembly from 1848 to 1969. Today, this work along with his 1840 painting of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, duchesse d'Orléans in the gardens of the Tuileries Palace are both in the Louvre. Lami's painting of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans is in the Louisiana State Museum at The Cabildo in New Orleans. He also painted a scene of the storming of Redoubt #10 during the 1781 siege of Yorktown.
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• Illustration — Grenadier of the Royal Guard, ca. 1817, Princeton University Art Museum • Illustration — Battle of Miravete, 1823 • Illustration — Charles I Receiving a Rose, 1829 • Illustration — Scène de carnaval, place de la Concord, 1834 • Illustration — The Storming of Redoubt No. 10, 1840 • Illustration — The Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu, 1843 • Illustration — Opening of the Great Exhibition, 1851 • Illustration — The Stuart Ball at Buckingham Palace, 1851 • Illustration — The Battle of the Alma, 1855 • Illustration — Entry to a Drawing Room at Marlborough House, 1871, Princeton University Art Museum • Illustration — Watercolour painting of The Great Hall at the Château de Ferrières, estate of James Mayer de Rothschild

Gathering of a hunting party in the forest. Etching by J. T. Willmore after E. Lami., by Eugène Lami
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1800
Eugène Lami born at Paris.
1890
Eugène Lami died at Paris.
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