Auguste François Biard
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Auguste François Biard (June 30, 1799 – June 20, 1882) was a French genre painter.
Born at Lyon, he traveled around the world, sketching on the way. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups.
His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, depicted on the right, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant (1993). Biard was a known abolitionist against the Atlantic slave trade.
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This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
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Cooper, Thompson (1884). "Biard, Auguste François". Men of the Time (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. pp. 117–118.
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