{{short description|French painter}} thumb|200px|Self-portrait (date unknown) '''Jean Seignemartin''' (16 April 1848 in Lyon – 29 November 1875 in Algiers) was a French painter of the Lyon School.<ref name=LEWIS>{{Cite book|last1=Hardouin-Fugier|first1=Elisabeth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bcw3AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Seignemartin%22|title=The Lyon School of Flower Painting|last2=Grafe|first2=Etienne|date=1978|publisher=F. Lewis|isbn=978-0-85317-054-9|pages=76–77|language=en}}</ref><ref name="FOSCA">{{Cite book|last=Fosca|first=François|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J88YAAAAYAAJ&q=Jean+Seignemartin|title=French Painting: Nineteenth Century Painters, 1800-1870|date=1960|publisher=Universe Books|page=149|language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == thumb|left|300px|Winter in Southern Algeria His father was a weaver. Having shown artistic talent, in 1860 he was enrolled at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cazenave|first=Elisabeth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnFJAQAAIAAJ&q=seignemartin|title=Les artistes de l'Algérie: dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, 1830-1962|date=2001|publisher=Bernard Giovanangeli Éditeur|isbn=978-2-909034-27-0|page=264|language=fr}}</ref> where he studied with Michel Philibert Genod and Joseph Guichard. He graduated in 1865 with the "Laurier d’or"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Desvernay|first=Félix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejbCZjeQdXAC&q=d'or+%221865%22|title=Le Vieux Lyon à l'Exposition internationale urbaine, 1914: description des oeuvres, objets d'art et curiosités|date=1915|publisher=impr. Rey|page=81|language=fr}}</ref> and shared a studio with his friend, {{ill|François Vernay|fr}}.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Seignemartin|first=Jean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v11GAQAAIAAJ&q=partage|title=Jean Seignemartin, 1848-1875, au Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon|date=1984|publisher=Le Musée|page=7|language=fr}}</ref>
In 1870, at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Latour|first1=Marielle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5NKAQAAIAAJ&q=1870+guerre|title=L'Orient en question, 1825-1875: de Missolonghi à Suez ou l'Orientalisme de Delacroix à Flaubert : [Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1975]|last2=Lehalle|first2=Evelyne|last3=Bouillé|first3=Marie Christine|last4=Cantini|first4=Musée|date=1975|publisher=Musée Cantini|page=67|language=fr}}</ref> he was drafted and assigned to a unit of pontonniers from Paris. This involved being almost constantly in the water (even during winter), which resulted in infections that led to tuberculosis.
After his return, he helped decorate Frigolet Abbey under the direction of Antoine Sublet. Later, he settled into his own studio in Lyon, where he attracted notable patrons such as Dr. Raymond Tripier and the banker R. Stengelin,<ref name=LEWIS/> father of the painter Alphonse Stengelin.
In 1874, he went to Algeria, accompanied by Doctor Tripier. There he met Albert Lebourg,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Seignemartin|first=Jean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v11GAQAAIAAJ&q=lebourg|title=Jean Seignemartin, 1848-1875, au Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon|date=1984|publisher=Le Musée|page=13|language=fr}}</ref> a professor at the {{ill|École supérieure des beaux-arts d'Alger|fr}}, who had a major influence on his style. In spring of the following year, he returned to Lyon, but went back to Algeria shortly thereafter on the advice of his doctors.<ref name=FOSCA/> He died that winter. It took several weeks to arrange for the transport of his body, which was interred at the Cemetery of Loyasse.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hardouin-Fugier|first1=Elisabeth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bcw3AQAAIAAJ&q=%22cemetery%22|title=The Lyon School of Flower Painting|last2=Grafe|first2=Etienne|date=1978|publisher=F. Lewis|isbn=978-0-85317-054-9|page=77|language=en}}</ref> A public subscription was taken up to adorn his tomb with a bronze bust by Étienne Pagny.
He painted portraits, genre scenes and still lifes of flowers, but his paintings from Algeria are his best-known works. A street in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon is named after him.
==References== thumb|290x290px|Elégantes dans un Parc {{reflist}}
== Further reading == * Maurice Frèze, ''Seignemartin, sa vie, son œuvre'', 1876 (self-published?) * Charles Faure and Alphonse Stengelin, ''Les Peintres Lyonnais. Seignemartin'', A. Rey et Cie Imprimeurs, 1905 * Colette Bidon, ''Jean Seignemartin au Musée des Beaux–Arts de Lyon'' (exhibition catalog), 1984
== External links== {{commons category|Jean Seignemartin}} * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/jean-seignemartin/ More works by Seignemartin] @ ArtNet
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