Antoine-Laurent Castellan

Antoine-Laurent Castellan (1772–1838) was a French painter, architect, and engraver.

Life

Castellan was born at Montpellier in 1772. After having studied landscape painting under Valenciennes, he visited Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland, and published several series of letters upon those parts, illustrated with views drawn and engraved by himself. His best-known work is the Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, published in 1812, and highly praised by Lord Byron. He also wrote Etudes sur le Chateau de Fontainebleau, which was not published until after his death. He was also the inventor of a new process of painting in wax.

He died in Paris in 1838.

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18th-century French painters

French male painters

19th-century French painters

French engravers

18th-century engravers

19th-century engravers

1772 births

1838 deaths

People from Montpellier

Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

19th-century French male artists

18th-century French male artists