Jean-François Albanis Beaumont (1753 - 1811)
1753-05-19Chambéry, France1811-11-27Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, France
Jean-François Albanis Beaumont
Jean-François Albanis Beaumont was a French landscape painter, engineer, traveler and geographer.
He studied engineering in Paris and worked on architectural structures at Chambérly. Beaumont later accompanied the Duke of Gloucester, William Frederick of Hanover on a grand tour of Germany, Italy, France, and Switzerland, making notes and detailed pictorial sketches of views along the way. In 1800 he published the illustrated books Journey to the Lepontine Alps from France to Italy and Description of the Grecian and Cottian Alps (1802 and 1806).
Date and place of birt: | 19 may 1753, Chambéry, France |
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Date and place of death: | 27 november 1811, Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, France |
Period of activity: | XVIII, XIX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Engineer, Engraver, Geographer, Painter |
Genre: | Mountain landscape, Landscape painting, Marine art |
Art style: | Baroque, Romanticism |