About Charles Swagers
Lived 1792 – 1849 (aged 56–57). Charles Swagers was a painter.
Charles Swagers (1792-after 1849) was a French painter, primarily of historical subjects, active in the early 19th century. He studied under his father, Franz Swagers, a landscape and marine painter from Utrecht who had settled in Paris. Swagers is best known for the grisaille he exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1833 titled The Tomb of Maria Christina of Austria, by Antonio Canova. A painting of St. Nicholas by Swagers is preserved in the church of Saint-Louis in Gien. In 1840 he was appointed professor of drawing and composition in Dieppe.
His mother, Elisa, née Méri, was a miniature painter and the professor of drawing at Écouen. His sister, Caroline, also a student of their father's, practiced in Paris and was a frequent exhibitor from the Salon of 1831 onwards. Charles Swagers' son, Édouard, was a painter and lithographer who also practiced in Paris.
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French painter (1792–1849)
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Charles Swagers was born in 1792.
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Charles Swagers died in 1849.
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Charles Swagers was a painter.
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