Jean de Botton

French (1898-1978)

Born in 1898, French painter, illustrator and muralist, Jean de Botton studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Antoine Bourdelle and Bernard Naudin. De Botton exhibited regularly at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants and participated in exhibitions in Spain, at the Carnegie Institute Internationals in Pittsburgh, Boston and Chicago and in French Art Exhibitions in Tokyo, Brussels and Antwerp. In 1937, de Botton was the only non-British painter invited to attend and paint the Coronation of King George VI. A year later, his Coronation paintings were exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York.
                                                
De Botton was a member of the Salon des Tuileries, Salon des Indépendants, Salon des Humoristes and he was President of the Salon France Nouvelle. The artist was appointed head teacher at the L’Académie de Montmartre from 1932-1939.
 
De Botton’s work is held in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Paris; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Dallas Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard and in the Museum of Art, Atlanta.