Edmond Francois Aman-Jean
(1858-1936):
Aman-Jean was a French symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923.
He began his art studies with Henri Lehmann at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1880 and later studied under Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. H became an important teacher in his own right; his students included Charles Sydney Hopkinson, Theodor Pallady, and Nicolae Tonitza.
He was known primarily for his portraits, especially of female subjects buthe was also noted for his murals in public and official buildings, including the Sorbonne. Like many French artists of his generation, he was influenced by the new perspectives on Japanese art current in Paris in his day but he was also interested in the Pre-Raphaelite artists in England.
Aman-Jean was a close friend of Georges Seurat and the two artists shared a Paris studio in 1879. Art historian Robert Herbert called Seurat's portrait of Aman-Jean, "one of the great portrait drawings of the nineteenth century".
Aman-Jean also worked in lithography and printmaking and designed posters.