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François Flameng was a successful society portraitist who received commissions in Paris, London and New York.!
François Flameng
Biography of François Flameng ( 1856-1923 )
François Flameng, son of the famous engraver Leopold Flameng (1831-1911), studied with Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre Hedouin and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Fine Arts School in Paris.
Engraver, draftsman, painter of history scenes, genre scenes and landscapes, François Flameng started exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1873. He received a second class medal and a first prize in 1879. In 1889, he was awarded a Grand Prix at the Universal Exhibition in Paris.
In 1905, he was appointed professor at the Fine Arts School.
François Léopold Flameng (–) was a notable French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th.
The same year, he was elected a member of the Institut and joined the French Artists Committee.
In 1882, his friend the American painter John Singer Sargent made a portrait of him sitting with the artist Paul Helleu. Highly appreciated by the public and art critics, Flameng painted the portraits of many influential people.
Among them, a portrait of Victor Hugo (in the collection of the Comédie Fran