Jean Baptiste Vermay

Jean-Baptiste Vermay (1786–1833) was a French-born Cuban painter, sculptor, caricaturist, educator, musician, and architect.[1] He was the founding director of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro.[2]

Jean Baptiste Vermay
Eliab Metcalf, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Vermay, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
Born(1786-10-15)15 October 1786
Tournan-en-Brie, Île-de-France, France
Died30 March 1833(1833-03-30) (aged 46)
Havana, Cuba
Other namesJean-Baptiste Vermay
Occupation(s)Painter, sculptor, caricaturist, educator, musician, architect

Biography
L'Mort de Marie Stuart (c. 1908) by Jean Baptiste Vermay
L'Mort de Marie Stuart (c. 1908) by Jean Baptiste Vermay

Jean-Baptiste Vermay was born on 15 October 1786 in Tournan-en-Brie, Île-de-France.[3][4] In 1797, he moved to Paris to study in the studio of Jacques-Louis David.[5] His classmate and friend was Joseph Leclerc de Baumé, the French painter. He also studied in Rome and Florence.[4]

In 1908, he won honors for his work L'Mort de Marie Stuart at the L'Exposition Universelle de 1908, a world's fair.[1]

In 1815, Vermay moved to Cuba.[3] Starting in 1818, Vermay was the founding director of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro.[2] He remained at the school until his death.

Vermay painted the interior of the El Templete.[6] Vermay in Cuba was appointed "Room Painter" of the King of Spain, Ferdinand VII. He died on 30 March 1833 in Havana from cholera.[4]

References
  1. Inter-America. Vol. 9. 1926. p. 170.
  2. "Fundada la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro". La Jiribilla (in European Spanish). September 7, 2018. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  3. "Jean Baptiste Vermay". British Museum. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  4. Barclay, Juliet (2003). Havana: Portrait of a City. Sterling Publishing Company. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-1-84403-127-6.
  5. "Cultural Anthropology". Abstracts in Anthropology. 69 (3): 440–589. October 2014. doi:10.1177/000134551406900302. ISSN 0001-3455. S2CID 220318250.
  6. Niell, Paul (August 2012). "Founding the Academy of San Alejandro and the Politics of Taste in Late Colonial Havana, Cuba". Colonial Latin American Review. 21 (2): 293–318. doi:10.1080/10609164.2012.695628. S2CID 154633374.
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