Born:1845 – Le Havre
Died:1939 – Hyères
Title of Work:
- Fountain Court, Temple
- Interior of the Temple Church
- Lincoln’s Inn Fields
- St. Paul’s from Bankside
- Temple Bar
- The Thames Below London Bridge
| Brunet-Debaines regularly visited London during the 1870s where he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1881 to 1888. From 1884 to 1897 Brunet-Debaines lived in London. During this extended stay he also visited Scotland and it is possible he made Orchar’s acquaintance then. He produced a series of views of London, Oxford and Edinburgh which appeared in P.G. Hamerton’s The Portfolio from 1874-79 and 1885-88. He studied under Charles Normand and Isidore Pils in Paris and also studied etching under François Antoine Maxime Lalanne, Jules Jacquemart and Charles-Etienne Gauchere. For more information see Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979. |