Jules-Émile Saintin

He was born in Lemé (France). Jules Émile Saintin was a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling and François-Édouard Picot at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1845.[1] He exhibited pencil portraits at the Salon des artistes français (Salon of French Artists) in 1850 and in 1853.

Portrait of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (1857–61), realized by Jules-Emile Saintin

In April 1854, he went to live and work in the United States, where he painted portraits, landscapes and Indian subjects.

He returned to Paris in 1860 and developed a workshop where he made paintings with American themes, and genre scenes.

In 1876, he was appointed Commissioner of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

Jules Émile Saintin was a friend of the architect Charles Garnier and the painter Paul Baudry.

He was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 1877.

• John C. Breckenridge, Vice President of the United States
• The Pony Express (1863)
• The Small War, Portrait of M. V. Giraud and Mlle. de Sade (1865)
• The Path to War (1865), Musée de la Crèche, Chaumont, Haute-Marne
• Carmella, Marthe, Portrait of Princess Mathilde and Mlle. Edile Riquier (1866)
• Portraits of Mlle. Jouassain and Émilie Dubois (1868)
• Indecision, Deception (1870)
• First Engagement, Self Satisfied (1877)
• Émilienne (1879)
• Flowers of Nice, Abandon (1880)
• At Tuileries, Near the Sea (1882)
• Autumn Night (1997)
• Brumaire, La Roche-aux-Mouettes (1888)