2714. GRANDFATHER'S BIRTHDAY.
Isabey (French: 1804-1886).
Eugène Gabriel Isabey (by whom there are several pictures in the Wallace Collection) was born in Paris, the son of the celebrated miniature-painter, Jean-Baptiste Isabey. He first appeared as a genre painter; and "amid the group of Classicists of his time, he had (says Dr. Muther) the effect of a beautiful patch of colour." He afterwards took to sea painting, having in 1830 accompanied the French expedition to Algiers as marine draughtsman.
A characteristic example of the elegant facility with which the painter rendered scenes involving gay attire.