Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

Place: Paris

Born: 1837

Death: 1880

Biography:

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart was a French artist and printmaker born in Paris in 1837 and died in 1880. He was the son of the architect Charles-Louis-Fortuné Brunet-Debaines. Jacquemart began his art studies at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1863, where he learned etching techniques under masters such as Maxime Lalanne and Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart. He exhibited his first etchings at the Paris Salon in 1866. Around 1870, he was invited to England by writer and critic Philip Gilbert Hamerton who commissioned him to contribute original etchings to his publications, the monthly magazine The Portfolio and Etching and Etchers. Jacquemart thus spent a considerable part of his prolific career in London and Scotland, and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1872 and 1886. Museums in France and Britain include examples of his etchings in their permanent collections. In 1882, he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. Jacquemart is considered one of the most important figures in the renewed interest in etching in 19th century in France, often designated as 'etching revival'. He was widely admired for his reproductive etchings of old masters and his own original etchings. He died in Paris in 1880.