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Eugène Girardet was a French Orientalist painter of Swiss ancestry.
Jean-Léon Gérôme was a prominent 19th-century French painter, a representative of the academic school of painting. His paintings are notable for their impeccable composition and exquisite colour palette.
Jean-Léon Gérôme did not accept the work of the Impressionists, whom he considered to be the ignominy of French art. This has earned him a controversial reputation as a fierce supporter of academism and a persecutor of new movements.
Adam Styka is a French orientalist painter of Polish origin.
Adam Styka, son of the painter Jan Styka, was educated at the French Academy of Fine Arts and, after serving in the French army, became a French citizen. As a result of his annual travels through the French colonies in North Africa, Adam developed an entire genre of Middle Eastern, Oriental and particularly Moroccan subjects. Styka had a talent for conveying the vivid colors and atmosphere of the hot Sahara desert, the moods and life of the people living there. After moving to the United States, Adam Styka began to paint landscapes of the American Wild West and paintings on religious subjects.
Styka often exhibited his paintings in the most prestigious Parisian galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysees and other galleries in Europe and both Americas, where he was always honored with the highest awards.
Charles Edouard De Beaumont was a French realist painter, watercolourist and lithographer.
Beaumont illustrated classic books of his era and was a regular and very popular contributor to Parisian periodicals. He is widely known for his humorous and sometimes satirical scenes of Parisian life.
Georges Washington was a French Orientalist painter. Most of his works featured soldiers and horses.
Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School, who also produced some Orientalist works.
Charles Garabed Atamian is a French artist of Armenian origin born in Turkey.
He studied for a time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, then worked as chief designer at a porcelain factory in Istanbul. In 1894, Atamian worked with a team of artists to decorate the new palace of Sultan Abdul-Hamid Il in Yildiz, on the European side of the Bosphorus. He designed, among other things, the patterns for the ceramic tiles of the palace walls.
In 1897, Atamian emigrated to France and began illustrating books and magazines, as well as working on sets for several Parisian theaters. Since 1903 Atamian participated in various exhibitions with unquestionable success. He painted landscapes, sea and beach scenes with children (including some 200 paintings at Saint-Gilles in the Vendée, where he resided each year during the summer months from 1923 to 1939). Throughout his career he was a fine portrait painter. He became a member of the National Society of Artists in 1927.
Guido Bach was a German portrait painter who focused mainly on watercolor painting. Bach traveled to Italy, Bohemia, and also visited Egypt. He created portraits and depictions of Italian village life, battle scenes, and images of North African Arab life.