Émile Aubry (painter)
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Émile Aubry (18 April 1880, Sétif[http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/pix2web.php?territoire=ALGERIE&acte=446759 Archives d'Outre Mer, commune de Sétif, acte de naissance nº 57, année 1880 (sans mention marginale de décès)] – 9 January 1964, Voutenay-sur-Cure) was a French painter. He remained particularly attached to Algeria the country of his birth.
Early life
His father, Charles-Albert Aubry, came from Franche-Comté and was sent to Setif as Lieutenant in the French Army.{{cite web|last1=Goinard|first1=Odette|title=Emile Aubry|url=http://www.memoireafriquedunord.net/biog/biog08_aubry%20.htm|website=Mémoire d'Afrique du Nord|publisher=L'association Mémoire d'Afrique du Nord|accessdate=28 March 2017}} However he decided to settle there, where he became a local physician. His mother was born to French parents who had settled there thirty years previously. Émile grew up there with his brother Georges, before attending boarding school in Paris.
In 1935 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
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Category:19th-century French painters
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