Eugène Boudin

Eugène Boudin was a French artist who was born in Honfleur, Calvados, France. He is regarded as one of the leading French landscape painters of the nineteenth century. He is known as 'the poet of the sea', and for his remarkable scenes depicting windswept beaches, rock pools and coastal roads. Boudin first studied art under Antoine Plamondon (1813-1885) at Honfleur from 1831 to 1837 and then moved to Paris to study art under Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832). In Paris he met Camille Corot who had a decisive influence on his style. At only twenty years old Boudin exhibited at the Salon for the first time and in 1845 became one of its most active participants because after this exhibition almost every year until 1870 he submitted paintings there, including works that were rejected by the jury.