| Alphonse-marie-adolphe De Neuville |
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| neuville, alphonse-marie-adolphe de | |
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| 1835 births | |
| 1885 deaths | |
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He was born to wealthy parents at Saint-Omer , France, on the 31st of May 1836. From school he went to college, where he took his degree of bacheliers lettres. In spite of the opposition of his family he entered the naval school at Lorient , and it was here, in 1856, that his artistic instincts first declared themselves. After being discouraged by several painters of repute, he was admitted to work in Picot 's studio. He did not remain there long, and he was painting by himself when he produced his first picture, ''The Fifth Battalion of Chasseurs at the Gervais Battery'' (Malakoff). In 1860 Neuville painted an ''Episode of the taking of Naples by Garibaldi '' for the Artists Club in the Rue de Provence, and sent to the Salon in 1861 ''The Light Horse Guards in the Trenches of the Mamelon Vert''. He participated in illustrating the . He then aimed at depicting in his works the episodes of that war, and began by representing the ''Bivouac before Le Bourget'' (1872). His fame spread rapidly, and was increased by ''The Last Cartridges'' (1873), in which it is easy to discern the vast difference between the conventional treatment of military subjects, as practised by Horace Vernet , and that of a man who had lived through the life he painted. In 1874 the ''Fight on a Railroad'' was not less successful, and was followed by the ''Attack on a House at Villersexel'' (1875) and the ''Railway Bridge at Styring'' (1877). In 1878 the painter exhibited (not at the Great Exhibition ) ''Le Bourget'', the ''Surprise at Daybreak'', ''The Intercepted Despatch-bearer'', and a considerable number of drawings. He also exhibited in London some episodes of the Zulu War . In 1881 he was made an officer of the Légion D'honneur for ''The Cemetery of Saint-Privat'' and ''The Despatch-bearer''. During these years de Neuville was at work with Edouard Detaille on an important though less artistic work, ''The Panorama of Rzonville''. De Neuville died in Paris on the 18th of May 1885. At the sale of his works the state purchased for the Luxembourg the ''Bourget'' and the ''Attack on a Barricaded House'', with a water-color ''The Parley'', and a drawing of a ''Turco in Fighting Trim''. SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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