Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814–1879) was a French painter, noted for his marine scenes and Orientalist works.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager
Portrait of Henri Durand-Brager
Born	21 May 1814 Dol-de-Bretagne, France
Died	25 April 1879 Paris, France
Nationality	French
Education	Gudin and Eugène Isabey,
Known for	Painter and photographer
Movement	Orientalism

Life and career

Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, a French marine painter, was born at Dol in Brittany in 1814. He studied under Gudin and Eugène Isabey.[1]

He was a naval officer who rose to the rank of captain.[2] In 1840, he accompanied the fleet which repatriated Napoleon's remains from St. Helena, which island afforded him subjects for various pictures. He spent much of his time in travelling; he went to Buenos Aires with the squadron, Montevideo in 1841–42 aboard a French warship,[3] and explored Uruguay and Brazil; he accompanied the expeditions to Tangiers and Mogador, and to Madagascar. He painted views of the places he visited, and also naval combats and sea-pieces. He died in 1879.

In the 1850s, he was in the Crimea during the war with Russia, where he turned his hand to photography as well as painting. He was one of about fifteen photographers, including Felice Beato, Roger Fenton and James Robertson, who photographed soldiers, barracks, camp life and battlefields and were the first to record a major war on film.[4] Later, he returned to Constantinople where he made photographs of the landscape, monuments and the people.[5]

He was a versatile painter, producing naval scenes, genre works, costumbrismo works, landscapes[6] and works with Orientalist themes. There are several of his works in the galleries of Versailles.

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  The American paddle steamer "De Ruyter" to the rescue
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  Battle of the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama, 1864
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  The Magenta, now in the Musée Thomas-Henry
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  Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager Private collection in Poland 52 cm x33cm
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  Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager Info on the back of the picture Private collection in Poland

See also

• List of Orientalist artists
• List of artistic works with Orientalist influences

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Durand-Brager, Jean Baptiste Henri". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Durand-Brager.

• Works by Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager at Internet Archive

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