Jean-Bruno Gassies (1786–1832), a French historical and genre painter, was born at Bordeaux.
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He studied under Vincent and Pierre Lacour, and died in Paris in 1832. He chiefly executed historical subjects from the Old and New Testaments, or from French history; but the pictures exhibited by him embrace a great variety of subjects — historical, poetical, and allegorical — landscapes, marine views, interiors of churches, and striking scenes on the coasts of England and France.
Among his works are:
- Hagar and Ishmael. 1811. (Brussels Gallery)
- Virgil reading his Aeneid to Augustus. 1814.
- Horace at the Tomb of Virgil. 1817.
- Portrait of Louis XVIII. 1819. (Bordeaux Museum)
- The Communion of St. Louis. 1819.
- The Clemency of Louis XII. 1824. (Versailles Gallery)
- View of the Church of Boulogne. 1826.
- A Bivouac of the National Guard. 1831.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Gassies, Jean Bruno". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.