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AUGUST EDOUART: Silhouette art
Born 1789, died I861;
A Frenchman, served under Napoleon, and was decorated. He married Mademoiselle Vital, and during the political crisis came to England. Cut silhouettes in doubled black paper; itinerated in the large towns in England and on the Continent. He kept books of duplicates which contained upwards of 100,000 portraits; these included the French Royal Family taken at Holyrood, hundreds of the gentry and nobility of Great Britain, besides professional men, statesmen, politicians, and almost every man and women of note of his time. He wrote a treatise on silhouettes, a demy octavo volume with many illustrations, which is now very rare. When upwards of fifty years of age, Edouart went to America, and while their he cut the portraits of presidents, soldiers, sailors, senators, and famous man and women in the States. In 1849 the ship " Oneida," on which the artist returned, was wrecked, and many of his valuable volumes of duplicates were lost, some 9,000 portraits. However fourteen volumes were saved and form a remarkable collection of the celebrities of his day.
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The Cary Family, of Boston, 1842
Samuel
Foote, New York, 1839
| Silhouette Designs for Artists and Craftspeople | Rico Prosperoso Paperback - 48 pages (27 July, 1995) Availability: We expect to be able to find this title for you within 4-6 weeks. However, please note that titles occasionally go out of print or publishers run out of stock. |
Self portrait Edouart
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Johanna Casper Lavater His Essays on Physiognomy in the 1770s possibly did much to stimulate interest in silhouette art. Some of his profiles. |
Silhouettes by John Miers (1756-1821) It is generally acknowledged that the best know, most successful and greatest profilist was John Miers. |
Miniature Art A brief look at this exquisite fine art form. |
Silhouette art Miniature pen and ink drawings by Douglas Carpenter, brief history of the silhouette craft, some fine silhouettes.August Edouart Probably the most famous Silhouettist of all, credited with over 3800 silhouettes. Well known for group portraits in shadow.Etienne de Silhouette The French Finance Minister from which the name silhouette is taken. Plus four coloured silhouettes. |