FLAMENG, François
(b. 1856 Paris, d. 1923 Paris)
French painter, engraver and illustrator. He was the son of an engraver and received a first-rate education in his craft. As a successful history painter and portraitist he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He decorated such important civic buildings as the Sorbonne and the Opéra Comique, and also produced advertising work. Flameng was granted France’s highest civilian honour, the Légion d’Honneur, and designed France’s first bank notes.
Flameng became an official artist to the French War Ministry and was hugely popular in France thanks to the dissemination of his work through magazines. His paintings of World War I were donated to the Musée de l’Armée in Paris in 1920.
