Artist

Julien Joseph Ducorron

Portrait of Julien Joseph Ducorron

Belgian, 1770–1848

Julien Joseph Ducorron was a Belgian Barbizon school artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum. Julien Joseph Ducorron was born in Ath.

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Julien-Joseph Ducorron (15 November 1770 – 22 March 1848) was a Belgian landscape painter. Ducorron was born at Ath. At the age of thirty-two, he devoted himself to the art of painting under the direction of Balthasar Paul Ommeganck, and made marvellous progress as a landscape painter, obtaining several gold medals. He was afterwards director of the Academy at Ath, where he died in 1848. The Brussels Museum has by him a "View in the neighbourhood of Irchonwelz, near Chièvres, Hainault", and a "Gale of Wind at Sunset". Ducorron died in his home town of Ath, aged 77.

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