"Roqueplan Camille (1803, 1855) French- Marine"
Oil on canvas (25 x 33 cm), signed at the bottom right.
Dimensions with frame (38 x 46 cm)
Camille Roqueplan is representative of the romantic movement following Flers, Huet, Isabey.
After studying, he exhibited at the Salon in 1922 where he was awarded several times. His works have many similarities with those of Paul Huet, with whom he worked at that time.
He exhibits landscapes, seascapes of Normandy, Brittany, the Pyrenees, the Vosges, Holland. Around 1830, he kept a busy workshop.
Suffering from tuberculosis, he died at the age of 52.
Bibliography:"Dictionary of French landscape painters in the nineteenth century" Lydia Haremburg .
Bibliography of Camille Roqueplan "History of painters of all schools"
Museums: Paris (The Louvre, Museum of Romantic Life), Saint-Petersburg (Hermitage Museum), London (Wallace collection), Bordeaux, Chantilly, Dijon, Fontainebleau, Lille, Marseille, Montpellier, Versailles