Auguste François Biard

Who was Auguste François Biard?

Auguste François Biard was a French genre painter.

Born at Lyon, he traveled around the world, sketching on the way. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups like in Sea Sickness on a British Corvet.

His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, depicted on the right, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant. Biard was a known abolitionist against the Atlantic slave trade.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed.. "". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.