Théobald Chartran ('T')
(1849-1907), Painter and caricaturistArtist associated with 86 portraits
French-born Theobald Chartran began his study of art in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel and later attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He gained a reputation as a painter of historical tableaux and won a number of commissions to paint French government buildings. After 1880, Chartran concentrated on portrait painting and became one of the favourite portraitists of elegant society. In the 1870s and 1880s he was one of an international group of artists who worked for Vanity Fair, producing caricatures of many of the leading characters of the day. He signed these works 'T'. He travelled to the United States in 1893 and made annual portrait-painting visits thereafter, until the end of his life.
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 12 July 1879
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Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 25 September 1880
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by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 1 May 1880
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by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 28 August 1880
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by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 24 December 1881
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by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 25 June 1881
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by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 8 July 1882
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Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 9 September 1882
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Sir Charles James Freake, 1st Bt
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 31 March 1883
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by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 23 June 1883
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Sir William Thackeray Marriott
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 24 March 1883
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Pope Leo XIII ('Sovereigns. No. 14.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 18 May 1878
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Giuseppe Garibaldi ('Men of the Day. No. 181.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 15 June 1878
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Umberto 1, King of Italy ('Sovereigns. No. 15.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 3 August 1878
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William Henry Waddington ('Statesmen. No. 284.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 28 September 1878
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Charles François Gounod ('Men of the Day. No. 192.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 February 1879
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Giuseppe Verdi ('Men of the Day. No. 193.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 15 February 1879
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(Joseph) Ernest Renan ('Men of the Day. No. 195.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 22 February 1879
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Sarah Bernhardt ('Women of Genius. No. 1.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 5 July 1879
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(François Paul) Jules Grévy ('Statesmen. No. 309.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 12 July 1879
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