Alfred de dreux biography
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Alfred de Dreux
French painter
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Alfred de Dreux from the Almanach de la littérature, du théâtre et des beaux-arts (1860) | |
Born | Pierre-Alfred Dedreux (1810-03-23)23 March 1810 Paris, France |
Died | 5 March 1860(1860-03-05) (aged 49) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Education | Théodore Géricault and Léon Cogniet |
Pierre-Alfred Dedreux, who signed his works as Alfred de Dreux (23 March 1810, in Paris – 5 March 1860, in Paris) was a French portrait and animal painter, best known for his scenes with horses.
The artist often travelled to Great-Britain between and , and was particularly fond of the English horse style he found noble and elegant.
Biography
Alfred de Dreux was born in 1810 into a privileged and colourful family.[1] He was the first child and only son of the architect, Pierre-Anne Dedreux (1788-1834).[2] His sister, Élise (1812-1846) was the mother of writer Louis Becq de Fouquières.
After his father won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1815, he lived at the Villa Médicis in Rome. While there, Théodore Géricault, a friend