François Étienne Victor de Clinchamp

François Étienne Victor de Clinchamp (1787 in Toulon - 1880 in Paris) was a French painter and author.

Biography

He was the son of Charles François René de Clinchamp, student of the Royal Military School, infantry captain, and of Claire Victoire Fortunée Bonnefoi.[1]

He was destined to a naval career, but his health failing he went to Paris, where he studied painting under Le Barbier and Peyron then with Girodet.[2][3]

Nevertheless, he was called to direct the Toulon School of drawing of the Navy. He painted a considerable number of religious paintings for several churches in the South of France: Christ healing the Sick of the Palsy,[4] The Sons of Zebedee, The Death of Phocion,[4] The Baptism of Saint-Mandrier[5] and a Crucifixion, which was his best exhibited work.[2][3]

He wrote some works on perspective, and several dramatic pieces.[3] Around 1820 he invented a device named noctograph to allow blind people to read.[6]

He took part in the Paris Salon in 1840 and 1841.[7][3]

Works

François-Étienne-Victor De Clinchamp (1840). Nouveau traité de la perspective linéaire, à l'usage des artistes et des écoles de dessin ; dans lequel on trouvera les réflections des miroirs ... Carilian-Goeury.

Honours

References
  1. Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais (1814). Nobiliaire universel de France, ou recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume. p. 503.
  2. Annuaire historique et biographique des souverains. A la direction des archives historiques. 1846. p. 27.
  3. Bryan, Michael (1886). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. I. G. Bell and Sons. p. 284. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. Dictionnaire historique des peintres de toutes les écoles) at the Internet Archive
  5. "Tableau et statues - Saint Mandrier". Fondation du patrimoine. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  6. "Dictionnaire du livre". Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  7. Griffiths, Harriet; Mill, Alister. "Database of Salon Artists". Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  8. "Rue Francois de Clinchamp sur la carte de Toulon". Street view. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
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