Louis Buvelot

Louis Buvelot
Portrait of Louis Buvelot by Julian Ashton, 1880
Born
Abram Louis Buvelot

3 March 1814
Morges, Vaud, Switzerland
Died30 May 1888 (1888-05-31) (aged 74)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Resting placeKew Cemetery
Known forLandscape painting
Movementplein air
Spouses
  • Marie-Félicité Lalouette (born 1816)
  • Caroline-Julie Beguin (1825-1902)
AwardsOrder of the Rose

Louis Buvelot (3 March 1814 – 30 May 1888), born Abram-Louis Buvelot,[1][2] was a Swiss landscape painter who lived 17 years in Brazil, and following 5 years back in Switzerland, stayed 23 years in Australia, where he influenced the Heidelberg School of painters.[3]

  1. ^ "DEATH OF M. LOUIS BUVELOT". The Argus. 31 May 1888. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  2. ^ Gray, Jocelyn (1969). "Abram-Louis Buvelot (1814–1888)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 3.
  3. ^ "DEATH OF M. BUVELOT". The Age. 1 June 1888. Retrieved 26 May 2024.