Gustave Colin

Gustave Colin studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Thomas Couture is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Residence is recorded at Ciboure. Work by Gustave Colin is recorded in the collections of Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Musée Léon-Dierx, Basque Museum in Bayonne, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Gustave-Henri Colin • Born — July 11, 1828 • Birthplace — Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France • Died — December 28, 1910 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Painter Gustave-Henri Colin (1828–1910) was a French painter.

Gustave-Henri Colin was born on July 11, 1828, in Arras, France. He learned painting from Constant Dutilleux in Arras. Upon moving to Paris, he took lessons from Ary Scheffer and Thomas Couture. • Illustration — Partie de pelote sous les remparts de Fontarabie (Hondarribia), 1863.

Colin was a painter. He painted landscapes and portraits. He exhibited his first painting, Portrait of a Grandmother, at the Salon in Paris in 1857. A year later, in 1858, he established a studio in Ciboure near Biarritz. By 1863, he exhibited his work at the Salon des Refusés in Paris. Colin spent time at the Château d'Orrouy, a castle owned by Count Armand Doria, an aristocrat and art collector. He met James McNeill Whistler in Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1862.

Colin was married to a Basque.

Colin died on December 28, 1910, in Paris, France.