Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1627-ca.1683 Related Paintings of Willem van :. | Royal James at the Battle of Solebay | Man with Pipe | A family in an interior | The pendants The cannon shot and The gust in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam | Pineapple Jardiniere | Related Artists: Francois-Auguste Biard (June 30, 1799 - June 20, 1882) was a French genre painter.
Born at Lyon, he traveled around the world, sketching on the way. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups.
His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, depicted on the right, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant (1993). Biard was a known abolitionist against the Atlantic slave trade.
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