Achille Granchi-Taylor

Achille Granchi-Taylor was born in Lyon in 1857 and died in Asnières in 1921. He was a French painter and illustrator.

Biography

"Jeune Pêcheur au panier"

His father was an Italian immigrant and commercial traveller and his mother English. He passed his youth in Paris and when he resolved to follow painting he joined the studios of Fernand Cormon. Between 1886 and 1888 he settled in Pont-Aven.[1] He married a cousin and finally moved to Asnières finding the Breton climate too harsh. The paintings of Achille Granchi-Taylor are full of melancholy and he captured the harsh life endured by the fishing community, painting scenes depicting the return of fishing boats and paintings of Breton women waiting on the quay for their husbands to return.[2] In 1905 he designed a poster for the "La Fête des Filets Bleus", created in that year to help the victims of the crisis which had hit the sardine industry. [3]

"La Préparation des casiers". A casier is a lobster pot

Works in public collections

Paintings exhibited at the Salon des artistes français

Illustrations

References

  1. ↑ http://filetsbleus.free.fr/concarn/achillegranchi.htm
  2. ↑ "Depictions of the fishing community". Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "La Fête des Filets Bleus". Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.concarneau-peintres.fr/granchi/morlaix.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.concarneau-peintres.fr/granchi/attente.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.concarneau-peintres.fr/granchi/raies.htm
  7. ↑ http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5711103v/f9.image
  8. ↑ http://www.concarneau-peintres.fr/granchi/hugo.htm
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