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Julius LeBlanc Stewart

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855 - 1919) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / France.  Julius Stewart is known for Portrait, genre, elegant female figure, interior, landscape paintings, nudes.

Julius Stewart was a figure and genre painter from Philadelphia who spent almost his entire life in Paris.  From the 1880s through the first decade of the 20th century, he ranked with John Singer Sargent as one of the most popular expatriate American painters in Paris.  He was following a genre begun by his friend, Jean Beraud, but Stewart's more vivacious work was considered especially American.

He painted the life he thoroughly enjoyed -Parisian high society. Stewart's works are spirited and realistic, full of fashionable women, sumptuous fabrics and elegant drawing rooms.  In addition to portraits of his well-to-do friends, Stewart fullfilled commissions for portraits of society figures and celebrities, among them the actress Sarah Bernhardt.  "His portrayal of Bernhardt in the double portrait, Reading Aloud (circa 1883, private collection) is nearly identical to that of the female reader in An Enthralling Novel, right down to the facial   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3147 characters.]  Artist bio

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