He was born at Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the son of a middle-class family in a mainly agricultural region, but also home to the celebrated General Cambronne and to illustrious notaries and Normandy judges. Pingret studied under painter Jacques-Louis David as well as Jean-Baptiste Regnault; studied also at the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome. He exhibited in Paris salons from 1810 onward. Was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1831. From 1850 to 1855 he lived and worked in Mexico City, exhibiting annually at the Academia de Bellas Artes. He produced outstanding portraits, including those of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1808) in France and General Mariano Arista (1851; Mexico City, Mus. N. Hist.). His most important works in Mexico were costumbrista genre scenes.
Italian painter and lotographer who studied in the same school as Jacques-Louis Davis in Paris. He created his first litographies for the press in Mexico as he was cofounder and editor of the newspaper El Iris, the first printed media to publish cartoons in Mexico. He was forced out of Mexico due to his politic activism. He’s wellknown for his handcoloured book in which he illustrated various manners of mexicans.
French photographer and diplomatic. He was one of the first followers of the Daguerre procedure, and in 1939 he started to create daguerreotypes. He created one of his firsts in Buenos Aires in 1840 using Charles Chevalier optics. In 1846, Jean-Baptiste kept controversy with Chevalier on getting better daguerreotypes. During this years he alternated long periods of residence in France and others in Colombia, where he created a fan club of photographic technics and where he also developed his own daguerreotypes. In 1847 he published Recueil de mémoires et de procédés nouveaux concernant la photograhie (Recolección de recuerdos y nuevos procesos relativos a la fotografía). He showes his own processes in the institution.
British landscape painter. He arrived to Mexico in 1830 after some of his works where wxhibited in the Royal Society of British Artists. He spent much of the later part of his life in Mexico, and in 1840 published Egerton's Views in Mexico, a portfolio of lithographs described in the subtitle as "being a Series of Twelve Coloured Plates, executed by himself from his Original Drawings, accompanied with a short Description".
French explorer, painter, architect and photographer. His interest in classic art led him to the ruins of Taormima, Mesina and Siracuse in Sicily. From there he traveled to Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Egipt, Colombia and Palestine where he made drawings and etchings of the found beds. From those travels it’s worth highlighting the ones of Baalbeck. Further on, he acquired fame and prestige for his explorations of the ruins left by the Maya civilization accompanied by the American writer John Lloyd Stephens. Together they published in 1841 the book Incidents of trips to Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán and Incidents of trips to Yucatán.
James Walker, born on June 3, 1819 in Northamptonshire, England, was a historical painter whose works can be found in the permanent collections of the U. S. War Department Building, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the California Historical Society and the Tennessee State Museum among others. Not much is known of his training, although it has been said that he studied in New York City. He was well known as a military painter and he was known to spend long hours at the sites of Civil War battles and interviewing survivors. Walker was the only American painter present during the siege of Mexico City. He returned to New York City in 1848 and, after visiting South America, established a studio there. Walker worked in Washington, DC, from 1857-62 where he painted the "Battle of Chapultepec" which is now in the U. S. Capitol. Walker completed a number of government- commissioned works, one of which was placed in the Senate. He was also commissioned by General Hooker to render the "Battle of Lookout Mountain". He worked in Washington again in 1883-4 and had a studio in the Corcoran building. In the early 1870s he opened a studio in San Francisco where he focused on Mexican culture of early California.
Born in Hallein, near Salzburg, Austria. The son of a soapmaker, Lohr came to Munich in 1863 in order to become a student at the Munich Academy. While in Munich he became active as a landscape painter specializing in Alpine scenes painted in Bacaria, Switzerland, and western Austria. Between 1879 and 1881 Lohr, like Franz Biberstein, assisted the Munich art professor Ludwig Braun in painting a panoramic view of the Battle of Sedan. Lohr is also reported to have been involved in the production of two similar battle panoramas painted under Braun's direction, scenes of the battles of Weissenburg and St. Privat. Later he did studies for a panorama of the Battle of Mars La Tour which was eventually exhibited in Leipzig. Lohr's last known painting from his Munich period is dated 1883. He assembled a team of German artists and together with Friedrich Heine directed the production of the Atlantic Cyclorama in 1885-86. Together with the panorama painters Hermann Michalowski and Bernhard Schneider, he contributed mural decorations to the Kuenslter Hem, a tavern near the Wells Street panorama studio which was a regular meeting place for the panorama artists. Lohr's contributions were a view of Munich and a painting of the Bay of Naples. Although his name appears in the 1890 Milwaukee city directory, he probably left Milwaukee for Mexico in 1890. A painting of the Chapultepec Castle was exhibited at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City in 1891. In 1899 Lohr was back in San Francisco to exhibit landscapes of Mt. Tamalpais, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and Mexico at the Mechanics Institute Fair. A small watercolor sent by Lohr from Mexico in 1912 indicates that he was still living there at that time.
Educated at Harvard College, His professional life has been spent in Boston, with frequent visits to Europe. In the 1870s he kept a studio on West Street. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1871 and 1875; the Williams & Everett gallery in Boston in 1875; the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia; and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the St. Botolph Club in 1880. He moved to New York around the turn of the century. Longfellow bequeathed some 55 paintings from his collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, including works by Jacopo Bassano, John Constable, Thomas Couture, Luca Giordano, and others.
