{"title":"Bouvier, Augustus Jules","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAugustus Jules Bouvier (1827-1881)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a French-born English painter active in London. He exhibited at the British Institution and the Royal Academy. He is best known for oil paintings of women of the English aristocracy, but was also an accomplished watercolourist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAugustus Bouvier was the son of Paris-born artist Jules Bouvier (1800-1867), who moved to London with his family in 1818. His brother, Gustavus Arthur Bouvier, also became a British figure painter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBouvier was a student at the Royal Academy. He later completed his studies in France and Italy. In 1852, he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy; he continued to exhibit there over the years, often with genre scenes and a series of idealised feminine portraits such as Jessica in 1854, Emily in 1857, and Hermosita in 1859. Bouvier was one of the first artists known to have exhibited at the British Institution, where he debuted with the oil painting The Fish Market in Boulogne. From 1865 onward, he was a member of the New Watercolour Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile he specialised in figure paintings and portraits of elegantly dressed women in the English aristocracy, Bouvier also exhibited genre paintings (some of which depict European scenes) and occasional domestic mythological scenes, such as his The Three Graces of 1875. He also produced miniatures and sensitive watercolours. Some of his watercolours were included in the Batsford colour book \u003cstrong\u003e'The Romantic Ballet'\u003c\/strong\u003e from 1948. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by the early aesthetic movement, his style relates to both Victorian academic painting and the Pre-Raphaelites.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"romantic-ballet-the-1948-jules-bouvier-1827-1881-et-al-17-images","title":"Romantic Ballet, The 1948 - Jules Bouvier (1827-1881) et al - 17 images","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are the illustrations by various artists for 'The Romantic Ballet', a Batsford Colour Book from 1948. In the book, the author Sacheverell Sitwell reminisces about 19th-century ballet dancers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 17 hi-res images in JPEG format, scanned by us from an original edition of the book. They are all 600dpi and range in size from 3750 pixels wide to 5652 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs well as Jules Bouvier (1827-1881), other artists featured are Alfred E Chalon (1780-1860), James Warren Childe (1780-1862), William Drummond, James Henry Lynch (1803-1868), Sophia Mary Joy and André Numa Blanc de Lebarthe (1849-1922).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bouvier-augustus-jules\" title=\"Jules Bouvier\"\u003eJules Bouvier\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 17 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62905100992842,"sku":null,"price":2.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/RomanticBallet_The1948-Frontcover_main.jpg?v=1786256888"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Bouvier_A_Jules_1827-1881-3377600.jpg?v=1786256785","url":"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bouvier-augustus-jules.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}