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François Diday

François Diday (1802 - 1877) was active/lived in Switzerland, France.  Francois Diday is known for Dramatic landscape paintings, atmosphics, mountain scenes.

François Diday (10 February 1802, Geneva - 28 October 1877, Geneva) was a Swiss landscape painter and art promoter.

His father was a watchmaker and scrap dealer. His mother worked as a tailor. After completing his primary education, he chose not to attend college, deciding instead to learn German and take drawing lessons from Abraham-Louis-Théodore Constantin-Jetzeler (1782-1847). He began his professional education in earnest at the Arts Society and took lessons from the landscape painters, Charles Joseph Auriol and Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer.
In 1821, he continued his education in Paris, where he worked at the studios of Antoine Gros then, in 1824, received a small scholarship from the Arts Society to study in Italy. He went to Rome, accompanied by his friend Adrien Rival (1802-1825). They also stayed briefly in Naples, but ran out of money and Rival became ill, so they had to return in 1825. He soon developed a preference for painting mountainous land   ...  [Displaying 973 of 3140 characters.]  Artist bio

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