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Jean Baptiste Guth
French portrait artist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean Baptiste Guth (4 January 1855 – 1922) was a French portrait artist, active from 1875 until a few months before his death.
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Jean Baptiste Guth | |
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![]() Au Bois de Boulogne by Guth, 1897 | |
Born | (1855-01-04)4 January 1855 Paris, France |
Died | 1922 (aged 66–67) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Education | École des Beaux-Arts, Jean-Léon Gérôme |
Known for | Portrait art, illustration |
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Guth worked mostly in watercolour and pastels. Much of his work was as an illustrator of magazines, especially the French L'Illustration and the British Vanity Fair, for which he signed his name simply as GUTH.