Eugène Lami

The painter, who was born in 1800 and died in 1890, trained under Antoine Vernet and Alexandre Gros, among others, and began working in the 1830s as a costume painter in the ballet field and was commissioned for Jean-Pierre Aumer's Manon Lescaut (1830), Jean Coralli's L'Orgie (1831), Filippo Taglioni's La Sylphide (1832) and Louis Henry's L'Île des Pirates (1835). His paintings include watercolours in the English tradition, various battle paintings (depicting battles from the British-American War of 1812 and the Crimean War, among others) and portraits of Ivan Turgenyev and Gustave Caillebotte.