Léonce Angrand

Léonce Angrand (8 August 1808 - 11 January 1886) was a French painter and draughtsman. While serving as vice-consul in Lima, Angrand "Produced albums of watercolours and drawings of cities such as Arica, Arequipa, Lima, Cuzco, Ollantaytambo, Urubamba and Tacna".[1] According to the National Library of France, Agrand served as Consul to Edinburgh 1832–1839, and to different locations in Latin America from 1839 to 1842 and 1845 to 1856.[2]

Portrait of Léonce Angrand by Eugénie Servières
Historical view of colonial Ayacucho (c.1847)

Notes
  1. artfact.com, Leonce Angrand (1808-1886), accessed 4 October 2012
  2. (in French) National Library of France, Angrand, Léonce (1808-1886) forme internationale
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