Charles Baugniet
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Charles-Louis Baugniet was a Belgian painter, lithographer and aquarellist.
He attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
in Brussels during 1827-29, where he studied under Joseph Paelinck and Florent Willems
. His first attempts lithography date from 1827, and his reputation grew steadily with the appearance of his first portraits in the magazine L'Artiste in 1833.
He collaborated with Louis Huard from 1835-42 in producing a series of portraits of the Belgian House of Representatives - Louis Huard finished only 6 portraits, Baugniet doing the remainder.
This was followed in 1836 by a series of 30 portraits of contemporary artists - "Les Artistes Contemporains". Included were portraits of Louis Jéhotte
, Louis Gallait
, Nicaise De Keyser
, Jean-Baptiste Madou, Eugène Simonis, Charles-Louis Verboeckhoven, Horace Vernet
, Paul Delaroche and Hippolyte Bellangé
.
He was commissioned to do portraits of the Belgian Royal Family, and this led to his appointment as court painter
in 1841.
In 1843 he moved to London where he became a leading society portrait painter, creating a portrait of Prince Albert in 1851. Later he often returned to London to do portraits of celebrities such as Charles Dickens
and the French composer Hector Berlioz
. Baugniet also designed the first Belgian postage stamp, brought into circulation on 1 July 1849. The stamp depicted Leopold I of Belgium
after a painting by Lievin de Winne.
Baugniet settled in Paris in 1860. Almost overnight the invention and development of photography strangled the traditional market of lithographic portraits, forcing many of Baugniet's colleagues to become professional photographers. Baugniet however concentrated on producing paintings and portraits which displayed the studied elegance of the Second French Empire
, a genre that enjoyed great popularity.
He attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
The Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels is an art school, founded in 1711.The faculty and alumni of ARBA include some of the most famous names in Belgian painting, sculpture, and architecture: James Ensor, Rene Magritte, and Paul Delvaux...
in Brussels during 1827-29, where he studied under Joseph Paelinck and Florent Willems
Florent Joseph Marie Willems
-Biography:Willems was born at Liège. He had no regular tuition in painting, but learnt by copying and restoring old pictures at Mechelen, where he lived from 1832. He made his debut at the Brussels Salon in 1842 with a Music Party and an Interior of a 17th-century Guard-room in the style of Gerard...
. His first attempts lithography date from 1827, and his reputation grew steadily with the appearance of his first portraits in the magazine L'Artiste in 1833.
He collaborated with Louis Huard from 1835-42 in producing a series of portraits of the Belgian House of Representatives - Louis Huard finished only 6 portraits, Baugniet doing the remainder.
This was followed in 1836 by a series of 30 portraits of contemporary artists - "Les Artistes Contemporains". Included were portraits of Louis Jéhotte
Louis Jéhotte
Louis Jehotte was a prominent Belgian sculptor working in a realist tradition that was inflected, who was responsible for the bronze equestrian monument to Charlemagne erected in the boulevard d'Avroy, Liège, in 1867...
, Louis Gallait
Louis Gallait
Louis Gallait was a Belgian painter.Gallait was born in Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium in 1810. He first studied in his native town under Philippe Auguste Hennequin. In 1832 his first picture, Tribute to Caesar, won a prize at the exhibition at Ghent...
, Nicaise De Keyser
Nicaise de Keyser
Nicaise de Keyser , was a Belgian painter of portraits and historical tableaux.He received his painting tuition at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts under Joseph Jacobs and Bree, before leaving for Italy in 1839...
, Jean-Baptiste Madou, Eugène Simonis, Charles-Louis Verboeckhoven, Horace Vernet
Horace Vernet
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects.Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. He was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the French...
, Paul Delaroche and Hippolyte Bellangé
Hippolyte Bellangé
Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé was a French battle painter. His art was influenced by the wars of the first Napoleon, and while a youth, he produced several military drawings in lithography. He afterwards pursued his systematic studies under Gros, and with the exception of some portraits, devoted...
.
He was commissioned to do portraits of the Belgian Royal Family, and this led to his appointment as court painter
Court painter
A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or noble family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Especially in the late Middle Ages, they were often given the office of valet de chambre...
in 1841.
In 1843 he moved to London where he became a leading society portrait painter, creating a portrait of Prince Albert in 1851. Later he often returned to London to do portraits of celebrities such as Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
and the French composer Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
. Baugniet also designed the first Belgian postage stamp, brought into circulation on 1 July 1849. The stamp depicted Leopold I of Belgium
Leopold I of Belgium
Leopold I was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians, following Belgium's independence from the Netherlands. He was the founder of the Belgian line of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
after a painting by Lievin de Winne.
Baugniet settled in Paris in 1860. Almost overnight the invention and development of photography strangled the traditional market of lithographic portraits, forcing many of Baugniet's colleagues to become professional photographers. Baugniet however concentrated on producing paintings and portraits which displayed the studied elegance of the Second French Empire
Second French Empire
The Second French Empire or French Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.-Rule of Napoleon III:...
, a genre that enjoyed great popularity.