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Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort (28 August 1793 – 24 December 1861) was a French artist who painted in both oil and water colours. The French King Louis-Philippe commissioned several of his works.

Biography

Fort was a student of the landscape painter Christian Brune [fr]. In 1842, Fort exhibited four canvases of battles and sieges at the Salon. They had been ordered by King Louis-Philippe for the "musée historique de Versailles". In the following year, he was commissioned to produce a view of the royal residence (View of the Palace of Compiègne (1843)).

References

1. John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 73.
2. "Jean-Antoine-Simeon Fort (French, 1793-1861)". Artnet. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
3. Brun-Durand, J. Dictionnaire biographique et biblio-iconographique de la Drôme, Grenoble: Librairie Dauphinoise, 1900, vol. 1, p. 338.
4. Starcky, Emmanuel (23 April 2012). "The patronage and collections of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III during the era of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert" (PDF). In Avery-Quash, Susanna (ed.). Essays from a study day held at the National Gallery, London on 5 and 6 June 2010. Royal Collection Trust. pp. 3, 5. ISBN 978-1905686-75-9. Retrieved 1 September 2013.

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