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Jean-Louis Hamon (1821-1874)  

Aliases: Jean Louis Hamon
Professions: Figure painter; Painter; Genre Painter

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Biography

(b Saint-Loup, near Plouay, Côtes-du-Nord, 5 May 1821; d Saint-Raphaël, 29 May 1874). French painter and designer. He was encouraged to practise drawing by the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine at Lannion. Through the intervention of Félicité-Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854), he was made drawing-master at a religious seminary at Ploërmel, Brittany, although at this stage he had received no instruction and had never seen an oil painting. In 1840 he asked his conseil général for ... (view more)

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