Fernand Stiévenart

Fernand Joseph Jules Stiévenart (21 May 1862 in Douai – 22 January 1922 in Uccle) was a French landscape painter; associated with the artists' colony at Wissant.

Fernand Stiévenart
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Biography

After completing his primary education in Douai, he began his artistic studies with a local painter, François-Constant Petit (1819-?). From 1878 to 1880, he studied at the École des Beaux-arts with Gustave Boulanger and others; winning several awards.[1]

In 1888, he exhibited several landscapes at the "Salon des Artistes Français", but it was not until 1893 that he joined the Société des Artistes Français. Shortly after, a terrible shipwreck occurred near Wissant, so he joined with his fellow painters, Adrien Demont, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse and Félix Planquette to create a company called "Flotsam"; devoted to replacing the fishing equipment that had been lost.[1]

He and his wife, the artist Juliette De Reul (1872-1925), daughter of the Belgian novelist Xavier de Reul, lived in Douai until the late 1890s, when they settled in Wissant and opened a studio. Later, their workshop would be occupied by the graphic artist, Paule Crampel (1864-1964), widow of the explorer Paul Crampel.[1]

He was awarded a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). Toward the end of his life, he and Juliette moved to Uccle, where they had built a large mansion.[1]

References
  1. Biographical notes @ the Stiévenart website.

Further reading
  • Michèle Moyne-Charlet, Anne Esnault, Annette Bourrut Lacouture and Yann Gobert-Sergent, Visages de Terre et de Mer - Regards de peintres à Wissant à la fin du 19e siècle, SilvanaEditoriale, 2014 ISBN 978-88-36629-29-9
  • Franck Dufossé, Histoire de Wissant, des origines aux années 1930, Éditions A.M.A., 2002 ISBN 2-951444-76-1
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