A Catalogue of Paintings From the Collection of the Late Sir George A. Drummond

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Excerpt from A Catalogue of Paintings From the Collection of the Late Sir George A. Drummond: On View January 31st to March 16th, 1918Born at Nantes in 1812, son of a porcelain worker, in whose factory he first worked. He made his way to Paris in 1831, in which year he showed five landscapes so full of nature that they at once commanded attention. In 1833 received first Salon medal, and from then his career was a continued success. Officer of the Legion of Honor, 1870. Died at Isle Adam in 1889, the last of the band of artists. The School of 1830, that redeemed French art from the lifeless ness of classicism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.