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Healy. They, wrote Pennington, offered “their clients portraits painted in the new American grand manner . . . [the portraits were] placed in enormous gilded frames . . . [that were] intended to impress the viewer with wealth and authority, and were far removed from the more humble intentions of the head and the shoulder pose.” A younger generation of European artists also found their way to Louisiana during this time. Foremost among them were the German-born artist William Rumpler and French artists François Bernard and Richard Clague, who would in the 24 COLONIAL THROUGH ANTEBELLUM LOUISIANA JEAN JOSEPH VAUDECHAMP (b. 1790, Rambervillers, France – d. 1866, France) William Charles Cole Claiborne II, 1831 Oil on canvas; 32 x 25 in. The Historic New Orleans Collection Bequest of Mrs. Clarisse Claiborne Grima post-war years gain fame for his landscapes of rural Louisiana painted in the French Barbizon style. Bernard also reflected rising new schools of painting in Europe. In Pennington’s  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=533 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=533 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1162 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=595

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