Alexandre Brun (marseille 1853-1941), Portrait Of A Young Girl In Profile, Oil On Canvas

Alexandre Brun (Marseille 1853-1941)
Portrait of a young girl in profile
Oil on canvas
34 x 24.5 cm (painting)
43.5 x 34.5 cm (frame)
signed lower right: A.Brun
Good condition - some wear

Bears a paint merchant's mark on the back on the frame Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun (Marseille 1852-1941), is a French painter, student of Alexandre Cabanel, Carolus-Duran and Félix Bracquemond. He is known for his numerous marine paintings and a collection of watercolors on dark wash representing orchids. He first studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, alongside Adolphe Monticelli, Louis Tinayre and Henri Pinta. A marine painter, he produced numerous illustrations for encyclopedias and works dedicated to the sea published by Larousse. A member of the Salon des Artistes français from 1877, he sent his works there almost every year until 1934. He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy in 1881 and 1882 as well as at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, during which he received the bronze medal, marine section, before interrupting to devote himself to traveling in various regions of France and Algeria. He suspended his activities again in 1914 to resume them at the end of the war and this, until 1934, date at which he retired to Malmousque, in his villa "L'Ouragan", exhibiting only at the Jouvène gallery in Marseille. He died in Marseille on November 5, 1941. A large number of his seascapes were purchased in 2002 by the National Maritime Museum.