Victor DeGrailly
French painter
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Victor DeGrailly (25 October 1804 – 4 September 1887) was a French landscape painter. He is considered a member of the Hudson River School of painters.
Biography
DeGrailly was born on 25 October 1804 in Paris, France. His teacher was Jean-Victor Bertin.[1] DeGrailly exhibited at the Salon from 1830 to 1880.[2] He painted landscapes in the style of, or directly copied, 17th-century Dutch painters such as Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema.[2]
DeGrailly's paintings of U.S. landscapes are believed to be copies of engravings, that were in turn based on William Henry Bartlett's drawings.[1] It is not believed that DeGrailly had ever been to the United States himself.[1][2] DeGrailly died on 4 September 1887 in Paris.[1]
In 1975, the only monographic exhibition of DeGrailly's paintings took place at the Washburn Gallery in New York City.[1]
