François-August Biard

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François-August Biard

François-Auguste Biard (Lyon, 29 June 1799 – Les Plâtreries, Samois-sur-Seine, 20 June 1882) was a French genre painter.His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant (1993). Biard was known as an abolitionist because of the paintings representing the Atlantic slave trade. Yet, historian Ana Lucia Araujo showed that the painter was never an abolitionist His paintings representing the Atlantic slave trade were rather intended to highlight the history of France. He travelled extensively around the world. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups like in Sea Sickness on a British Corvet (Dallas Museum of Art).

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