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Francois Regis Gignoux

GIGNOUX, Francois Regis, landscape painter, born in Lyons, France, in 1816" died in Paris, 6 August, 1882. He was educated at Fribourg, and studied art in the Academy of St. Pierre, at Lyons. Later he entered the School of fine arts at Paris, and was also a pupil of Paul Delaroche. In 1844 he removed to the United States and opened a studio in Brooklyn, New York In 1851 he was elected a member of the Academy of design, and was the first president of the Brooklyn art academy. In 1870 he returned to France, where he resided until his death. The best known of his landscapes are "Niagara Falls," "Virginia in Indian Summer," "The First Snow," "Four Seasons in America," "The Dismal Swamp," "Moonlight on the Saguenay." "Mount Washington," which was exhibited at the Paris sale of 1867, and "Spring," at the Philadelphia exposition of 1876.

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