Régis François Gignoux

View Near Elizabethtown, N. J., oil painting by Régis François Gignoux, Honolulu Museum of Art

Régis François Gignoux (16 June 1816 in Lyon – 14 April 1882 in Paris) was a French painter who was active in the United States from 1840 to 1870. (Aliases: Marie-François-Régis Gignoux; Régis Francois Gignoux; Régis François Gignoux; Régis-François Gignoux)

Biography He was born in Lyon, France in 1816, and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under the French historical painter Hippolyte Delaroche, who inspired Gignoux to turn his talents toward landscape painting. Gignoux emigrated to the United States from France in 1840 to follow his brother and to marry an American woman were his students. By 1844, Gignoux had opened a studio in New York City and became one of the first artists to join the famous Tenth Street Studio, where other members included Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and John Frederick Kensett. Currently, Mammoth Cave is touring as part of The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision organized by the New-York Historical Society.