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Show 255 French engraver, born in Joinville (Haute-Mame), July 2, 1819; died in Paris (Passy) in March of 1882 (or1883). A student of his father Jean Geoffroy, of £mile Rouargue, and of P. R. J. Monvoisin, Geoffroy entered the £cole de Beaux-Arts on April 2, 1835. Between 1848 and 1856, he exhibited his works in the Paris salons. He engraved the M6dee of Delacroix, the Harem of Diaz, the Watermill of Ruisdael, and works by Ch. Moreau, Chaplin, Monvoisin, Poussin, Raphael, etc., for the magazine L'Artiste, for the publishers Fume and de Gonet, and the Chalcographie des Louvre. Geoffroy also produced several portraits of theatrical celebrities. Apell, p. 173; Benezit, v.4, p. 674; Beraldi, v.7, pp. 84-87; Bryan, v.2, p. 230; Thieme Becker, v.13, p. 421. See also: Bellier-Auvray, v.1(1882); Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XI (1880), p. 174; Rowinsky, Russ. Portr. Lex., 1886ff I, 653 and IV, 668; Reiber, Iconogr. alsatique, 1896; Graf Hutten-Czapski, Kat.s. Samml. poln. Portraitstiche, Krakau, 1901; Legrand; Landouzy, Coll. art. de la Faculte de Medecine de Paris, 1911; Duplessis, Cat. Portr. franc., Bibliot. Nat., 1896,ff. passim. Graves, Loan Exhib.,1, IV, 1914 (addenda). Himley, Slglsmond: (French, 1801-1872) Vignette XIV, Offering of the Mandan Indians (reworked by Lucas Weber); Tableau 5, Mouth of the Fox River Tableau 25, Idols of the Mandan Indians Tableau 37, The White Castles on the upper Missouri Tableau 38, Camp of the Gros Ventre des Prairies on the upper Missouri Tableau 40, Herd of Bisons on the upper Missouri (with Bishop) Tableau 44, View of the Rockv Mountains French landscape watercolorist, engraver, and etcher, born June 7, 1801 in Neuveville, Switzerland; died in 1872, in Paris.3 Himley studied under Couleru, professor of drawing, and then worked in Neuchatel with the painter F. W. Moritz, where he became acquainted with the publisher F. v. Osterwald, who hired Himely to illustrate his book on the antiquities of Sicily and took Himley to Paris in 1822, where he worked with Fielding, who taught Himley engraving and aquatint. According to Benefit, Himley also studied in the atelier de Bertin and became a naturalized French citizen. Himley soon became a well-known illustrator. Between 1824 and 1869 he exhibited various watercolor landscapes in the Paris salons and won a medal in Rouen for a view of that city. Himley also etched numerous aquatints after works by Fielding, Callow, Perot, Garneray, Turner, Charlet, Decamps, Roqueplan, H. Bellange, etc. Two of his history tableaus Siege de Toulon le 19 novembre 1794 a 6 heures du matin and Sieae de Toulon, le 30 novembre au matin were hung in the Musee de Versailles. Benezit, v.5, p. 547; Beraldi, v.8, p. 123; Brun, v.2, (1908), p.p. 58-59; Lonchamp, L'Estampe, xxvi; 3 Brun: died in 1866. |