Jacques-Émile Blanche

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861 - 1942) was a French artist, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris. Although Blanche received some instruction in painting from Henri Gervex, he may be regarded as self-taught. He became a very successful portrait painter, with a style derived from 18th-century English painters such as Thomas Gainsborough as well as Édouard Manet and John Singer Sargent.