François-Xavier Fabre
(1766–1837) fransk målare
François-Xavier Fabre (France, 1766–1837) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, François-Xavier Fabre belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
François-Xavier Fabre was born in Montpellier and died in Montpellier. François-Xavier Fabre trained at Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. François-Xavier Fabre studied under Jacques-Louis David. François-Xavier Fabre worked in Montpellier and Florence. The awards include Officer of the Legion of Honour and Prix de Rome.
The best-known works include ‘Portrait of Henri-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke, Comte d'Hunebourg and Duc de Feltre, Maréchal de l'Empire et Ministre de la Guerre’, ‘Portrait of a Man’, ‘Musée Fabre’, and ‘Notice des tableaux et autres objets d'art exposés au Musée Fabre de Montpellier, 1830’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 66 works by François-Xavier Fabre with free images. The dated works span the years 1784–1835. Works by François-Xavier Fabre are held by several collections, among them Musée Fabre, National Museum in Kraków, Museo Napoleonico, and J. Paul Getty Museum.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Giuseppe Longhi, Friedrich Carl Gröger, William Dunlap, Henry Singleton, and Wilhelm von Kobell.