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Ernest Etienne Narjot

Ernest Etienne Narjot (1826 - 1898) was active/lived in California / France.  Ernest Narjot is known for Frontier genre, mural, portrait paintings.

A painter in a highly detailed, traditional style, Ernest Narjot painted landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, and several murals for churches and public buildings.  By the 1880s, he was considered one of California's foremost painters and also illustrated books of early California life.

He was born in St. Malo, France with the full name of Ernest Etienne Narjot and was raised in Paris by artist parents.  He received formal art training there but was distracted from that pursuit by his interest in gold mining, which lured him to America.

He was part of the California Gold Rush of 1849 but was unsuccessful.  For thirteen years, he was with a mining expedition to Mexico and painted mining and landscapes along the Arizona border.  He also married a Mexican woman, Santos Ortiz.

By 1865, he settled in San Francisco where he had a studio on Clay Street and painted landscapes, portraits, and sketches of gold miners and Indians and did murals and fresco   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1854 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Ernest Etienne Narjot

A painter in a highly detailed, traditional style, Ernest Narjot painted landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, and several murals for churches and public buildings.  By the 1880s, he was considered one of California's foremost painters and also illustrated books of early California life.

He was born in St. Malo, France with the full name of Ernest Etienne Narjot and was raised in Paris by artist parents.  He received formal art training there but was distracted from that pursuit by his interest in gold mining, which lured him to America.

He was part of the California Gold Rush of 1849 but was unsuccessful.  For thirteen years, he was with a mining expedition to Mexico and painted mining and landscapes along the   ...  Displaying 750 of 1854 characters.

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