Jean De Botton (French 1898-1978)
Born in Salonika, Greece, Jean de Botton studied frescoes at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris under Antoine Bourdelle, Bernand Naudin, and worked as an assistant to his master Paul Baudouin. He was an official painter at the crowning of H.M. King George VI, at the Westminster Abbey, London, 1937. His paintings appeal through their precision of design that leaves nothing to chance and very little to instinct, in combination with an acute sensitivity to complex chords of colour, and a quick response to the kind of experience that turns an artist into an interpreter rather than a manipulator of paint.
