Alexandre Brun (marseille 1853-1941), Portrait Of The Artist's Wife? In A Landscape, Oil

Alexandre Brun (Marseille 1853-1941)
Young woman with a hat in an undergrowth (wife of the artist?)
Oil on canvas
33 x 24.3 cm
signed lower left: A.Brun
Very good condition - without frame
Door at behind the brand of the canvas merchant Sennelier Quai Voltaire (active from 1887)

Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun (Marseille 1852-1941), is a French painter, student of Alexandre Cabanel, Carolus-Duran and Félix Bracquemond. He is known for his numerous marine paintings and a collection of watercolors on dark wash depicting orchids. He first studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, alongside Adolphe Monticelli, Louis Tinayre and Henri Pinta. A marineist painter, he created numerous illustrations for the encyclopedias and works dedicated to the sea published by Larousse. Member of the Salon des Artsites francais from 1877, he sent his works there almost every year until 1934. He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy in 1881 and 1882 as well as at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, during from which he received the bronze medal, marine section, before taking a break to devote himself to traveling in various regions of France and Algeria. He suspended his activities again in 1914 and resumed them at the end of the war until 1934, when he retired to Malmousque, in his villa "L'Ouragan", exhibiting only in the Jouvène gallery in Marseille. He died in Marseille on November 5, 1941.
A large number of his marines were purchased in 2002 by the National Maritime Museum.