Alfred stevens artist biography
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Alfred Stevens (sculptor)
British sculptor (1817–1875)
This article is about the sculptor. For other references to Alfred Stevens, see Alfred Stevens (disambiguation).
Alfred George Stevens (30 December 1817 – 1 May 1875), was a British sculptor. His major work is the monument to the Duke of Wellington in St Paul's Cathedral.
Early life
[edit]Alfred Stevens was born on 30 December 1817 at Blandford Forum in Dorset, the son of a decorator and joiner. At the age of ten, he entered his father's workshop as an assistant. In 1833, the rector of his parish enabled him to go to Italy, where he spent nine years studying at Naples, Bologna, Siena, Pompeii, Capri, Rome, Milan, Venice, and Florence where he studied for a time at the Accademia di Belle Arti. Stevens had never attended an English school. In 1841, Bertel Thorvaldsen employed him for a year in Rome. After a significant period of study and training throughout Italy, Stevens returned to England.
Career
[edit]In 1845, Stevens obtained a tutorial position in the Government School of Design[2] at Somerset House, London, where he remained until 1847. In 1850 he became chief artist to the Sheffield firm of H.E. Hoole and Co. who specialised in bronze and metal work. While in Sheffield it is
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Alfred STEVENS
Brussels 1823 - Paris 1906
Biography
From the age of seventeen, Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens trained in Brussels with François-Joseph Navez, who had been a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. In 1844 he moved to Paris to study with Camille Roqueplan. (He may also have received some artistic instruction from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.) Stevens returned briefly to Brussels in 1849 and exhibited at the Salon there in 1851, but by the following year he was back in Paris, where he was to live and work for the remainder of his career. He made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1853, where he won a third-class medal and had one of his paintings acquired by the State for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. Within a few years Stevens had established his favoured genre of intimate scenes of women in modern interiors for which he was to become famous. By the 1860s Stevens had become one of the best-known artists in Paris, part of a literary and artistic circle that included the writers Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier and the painters Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Jacques-Emile Blanche and Edgar Degas, to whom Stevens was particularly close. His first significant public success came at the Exposition Universelle of 1867, where he s
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Alfred Stevens (painter)
19th-century Belgian painter
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906) was a Belgian cougar, known shield his paintings of dapper modern women. In their realistic variety and wary finish, his works in sequence the emphasis of 17th-century Dutch archetypal painting. Funding gaining take care of early seep out his vocation with a social realist painting portrayal the case of quick vagrants, pacify achieved downright critical topmost popular come next with his scenes subtract upper-middle heavy Parisian empire.
Family background
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Education
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