Theodore Frere. Charles-Théodore Frère was a French Orientalist painter.
Painter of historical subjects, genre scenes, local scenes, landscapes and seascapes; watercolourist and draughtsman. Orientalist.
The son of a Paris music publisher, Frère studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Cogniet and Camille Roqueplan. On completing his studies, he travelled throughout France visiting Alsace, Auvergne and Normandy.
One of the painters earliest drawings, maybe its even the earliest drawing, he did with pencil on paper-showing a rural french landscape with an old farm, entitled Schlettstadt 1833. Since 1920 this town in Alsace is called Sélestat.
On returning to Paris, he exhibited Vue des Environs de Strasbourg at the 1834 Paris Salon. His exhibits at the Salon in subsequent years were nearly all Orientalist paintings as a result of several journeys to Africa and the Near East. Charles Théodore Frère exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1834 to 1881, participated in the Expositions Universelles of 1855, 1867 and 1878 in Paris and, up to and including 1887, in the Salon des Artistes Français. He was awarded medals in 1848 and in 1865. After a stay in Algiers in 1836, he left with the army for Constantine which was taken on 13 October 1837, returning to Paris in 1839. Like his younger brother Pierre-Édouard, he was a prolific painter. During his first trip to Algeria, he completed works for the K
Painter of historical subjects, genre scenes, local scenes, landscapes and seascapes; watercolourist and draughtsman. Orientalist.
The son of a Paris music publisher, Frère studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Cogniet and Camille Roqueplan. On completing his studies, he travelled throughout France visiting Alsace, Auvergne and Normandy.
One of the painters earliest drawings, maybe its even the earliest drawing, he did with pencil on paper-showing a rural french landscape with an old farm, entitled Schlettstadt 1833. Since 1920 this town in Alsace is called Sélestat.
On returning to Paris, he exhibited Vue des Environs de Strasbourg at the 1834 Paris Salon. His exhibits at the Salon in subsequent years were nearly all Orientalist paintings as a result of several journeys to Africa and the Near East. Charles Théodore Frère exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1834 to 1881, participated in the Expositions Universelles of 1855, 1867 and 1878 in Paris and, up to and including 1887, in the Salon des Artistes Français. He was awarded medals in 1848 and in 1865. After a stay in Algiers in 1836, he left with the army for Constantine which was taken on 13 October 1837, returning to Paris in 1839. Like his younger brother Pierre-Édouard, he was a prolific painter. During his first trip to Algeria, he completed works for the K
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