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Bernard Romain Julien or Bernard-Romain Julien (16 November 1802 – 3 December 1871) was a French printmaker, lithographer, painter and draughtsman.
Julien was born on 16 November 1802 in Bayonne.[1][2] He was trained to draw in his home town between 1815 and 1818 before moving to Paris, where he studied painting from 1822 onwards under Antoine-Jean Gros at the École des Beaux-Arts.[1]
He exhibited some paintings and drawings at the Paris Salon between 1833 and 1850, but principally showed lithographs,[1] for which he was known.[3] He produced lithographs of other artists, like George Henry Hall's Cours de Dessin.[4] In 1840, he published Étude à deux crayons ("Study in deux crayons").[5]
In Landor's Cottage, Edgar Allan Poe describes Julien's work, "One of these drawings was a scene of Oriental luxury, or rather voluptuousness; another was a carnival piece, spirited beyond compare; the third was a Greek female head—a face so divinely beautiful, and yet of an expression so provokingly indeterminate, never before arrested my attention."[5]
In 1854, he made a full-bust portrait of George Washington, after Gilbert Stuart, and the lithograph is in the art collection of Mount Vernon.[6] He returned to his hometown in 1866 and taught drawing there until his death on 3 December 1871.[1][2]
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