Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq
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Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq (born in Paris in 1826, died in Paris in 1895) is a French painter, primarily of religious and military subjects.

In 1870, he came in United-States send by the French government for a study mission about "the different learning methodologies of design and how they are applied in arts and industry". He met the artists of the East coast and also the military academies of West Point and Annapolis. He did not paint much in US but back in France, some of his artworks are inspired by the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...

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One of his paintings, "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence" is in the Cabinet Room of the White House.
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