Adolphe Appian (1818-1898)
Oil on panel.
Signed A. Appian Paris LL.
Excellent original condition with minor retouch.

Barbizon painter and printmaker Jacques Barthelemy Adolphe Appian was born 1819 in Lyon, France. At age fifteen he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts et Lyon, where he studied under Jean-Michel Grobon and Augustin Alexandre Thierrat. At this time he shortened his name to Adolphe Appian, and after completing his studies at Beax-Arts Lyon he traveled to Paris to continue his education, focusing on atmospheric landscape painting as well as graphic arts.