Jacques-Eugène Feyen

Jacques-Eugène Feyen studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Paul Delaroche is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are Le Baiser enfantin. Work by Jacques-Eugène Feyen is recorded in the collections of Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Bowes Museum, Manchester Art Gallery and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

The elder brother of painter Auguste Feyen-Perrin, Jacques-Eugène enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under Paul Delaroche. He had a notable career at the Paris Salon from 1841 to 1882. Vincent van Gogh was a fan of Feyen and describes him as, "one of the few painters who pictures intimate modern life as it really is, and does not turn it into fashion plates." He set up studio and settled in summer in the town of Cancale. He spent several months every year painting views of Cancale, the oyster-picking Cancalaises and the bay of Mont Saint-Michel, and his paintings still enjoy a steady fame. • Illustration — Women and fishermen waiting for the boat (ca. 1860). Rio de Janeiro, Itamaraty Palace. • Illustration — Le Baiser enfantin (1865), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. • Illustration — (Attributed), Multi selfportrait (1906), Metz, unsourced private collection.