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Louis Grenet

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Louis Edward Grenet (1857 - 1922) was active/lived in Texas / France.  Louis Grenet is known for Portrait, genre, illustrator.

Genre and portrait painter Louis Edward Grenet, 1856-1922, was born in San Antonio. His merchant father's import business near the Alamo, may have enhanced the young future artist's awareness of the world, for he would spend much of his life in Europe.

In 1878, he studied in New York City at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League, returning to San Antonio in 1879, where he established a studio until 1885. Grenet's painting of artist John Conrad Beckmann's portrait, in the early 1880s, is thought to have encouraged that young artist in his career as a portrait painter.

Traveling to Paris in 1885, Grenet studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Alexandre Cabanel, and the Academic Julian, with Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

One of Grenet's major awards was his first prize in the Paris Salon of 1909 for a portrait of a woman, "Mariola," though he was also the winner of several medals in exhibitions in London and provincial cities lik   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2391 characters.]  Artist bio

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16 Book References for Louis Grenet
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1993 Steinfeld, Cecilia; William H. Goetzmann (Intro) Art for History's Sake The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum 298 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1967 Pinckney, Pauline A Painting in Texas The Nineteenth Century 213 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1915 Editors Who's Who in American Art, 1915 American Art Annual 0 No
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