James jacques joseph tissot biography of barack

Jacques-Joseph Tissot was born in 1836, in Nantes in a seaport on the French coast. Throughout his life Tissot retained an affinity and fascination with all things nautical, and his marked ability to accurately paint rigging and shipboard scene paintings must have come from his boyhood.

Tissot was the son of a very prosperous, successful shopkeeper, who was a devout Roman Catholic. Unsurprisingly the young Tissot was sent away to a boarding school run by Jesuits.

French artist and illustrator.

French artist and illustrator.

Y , French painter James Jacques Joseph Tissot (–) was earning 70, francs a year, and had found his entrée to aristocratic.

James Tissot.

Born on this day in James Jacques Joseph Tissot was trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris but spent much of his career in England.

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Tissot senior seems to have been unenthusiastic about the prospect of his son becoming an artist, but eventually accepted the inevitability of his son’s artistic pretensions forming the basis of his career.

In 1856 Tissot went to Paris to train as a painter.

Here, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts the young Tissot met the young James McNiell Whistler (1834-1903), one of the most celebrated and unusual figures in 19th century art. At about this time Tissot also met, and became a frien