Jean Benner

Jean Benner (28 March 1836 – 28 October 1906) was a French artist. He was twin to fellow artist, Emmanuel Benner, and the father of Emmanuel M. Benner, another artist.

Early life

Twins Jean and Emmanuel Benner were born in March 1836 in Mulhouse, Alsace, France to Jean Benner-Fries.

Career The Benner brothers were first designers at Mulhouse mills and factories. By 30 years of age, Jean was able to study art with Léon Bonnat, Eck and Jean-Jacques Henner and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1868. In 1881 he won his first medal there for this painting Le Repos.

He painted still-life, portrait and genre paintings, including After a Storm at Capri (1872), Trappist in Prayer (1875), Petite Falle de Capri, Flowers and Fruits (1868),

He also painted in the Isle of Capri, which was an artist colony at that time, its residents included Frederic Leighton, Walter McLaren, John Singer Sargent, Edouard Alexandre Sain, and Sophie Gengembre Anderson.

Benner died in 1906 in Paris.

Works A house in Capri, 1881, Fine Arts Museum, Pau Women of Capri, 1882, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse. Remarkable for its heroic size, quite unusual for a genre painting: by . Briseis weeping over the body of Patroclus, 1878, château-musée, Nemours Ecstasy, , Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Girl in Capri, 1906, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes Hollyhocks, Musée d'art et d'archéologie, Senlis Les Pêcheurs, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre Portrait of Jean-Jacques Henner, 1899, Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse Portrait of Emmanuel Benner, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes Salomé, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes To France, always, Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse

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