Augustus Jules Bouvier

Augustus Jules Bouvier (1827–1881) was a French-born English painter active in London.

[1] He is best known for oil paintings of women of the English aristocracy, but also was an accomplished water colourist.

Bouvier was one of the first artists known to have exhibited at the British Institution, where he debuted with the oil painting The Fish Market in Boulogne.

While he specialized in figure paintings and portraits of elegantly dressed women in the English aristocracy, Bouvier also exhibited genre paintings (some of European scenes), and occasional domesticated mythological scenes like his The Three Graces of 1875.

Influenced by the early aesthetic movement, his style relates to both Victorian academic painting and the Pre-Raphaelites.