Jean Benner (28 March 1836, in Mulhouse – 28 October 1906, in Paris) was a French artist. He was twin to fellow artist, Emmanuel Benner, and the father of Emmanuel M. Benner, another artist.
Early life
Twins Jean and Emmanuel Benner were born in March 1836 in Mulhouse, Alsace, France to Jean Benner-Fries.[1][2]
Career
The Benner brothers were first designers at Mulhouse mills and factories. By 30 years of age, Jean was able to study art with Léon Bonnat, Eck and Jean-Jacques Henner and exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1868. In 1881 he won his first medal there for this painting Le Repos.[3]
He painted still-life, portrait and genre paintings, including After a Storm at Capri (1872), Trappist in Prayer (1875), Petite Falle de Capri, Flowers and Fruits (1868),[1] and Reverie.[4]
Women of Capri, 1882, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse. Remarkable for its heroic size, quite unusual for a genre painting: 270 cm (110 in) by 171 cm (67 in).
Briseis weeping over the body of Patroclus, 1878, château-musée, Nemours