Godefroy Durand

Godefroy Durand (1832, Düsseldorf – 27 September 1896, Paris)[1] was a German-born French illustrator and draughtsman, who worked in both France and Great Britain.

[3] He exhibited Un Coup de Canon (1870) at the Suffolk Street Gallery, London in a mixed 'Exhibition for the Benefit of the Distressed Peasantry of France' held to raise funds for those affected by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71.

[4] His watercolour Siege of Paris, 1871 Montmartre during the sortie of January 19th was shown at the Royal Society of British Artists in London in 1873.

One of his Franco-Prussian War illustrations was republished in the newly launched Belgian weekly newspaper L'Illustration Européenne in 1870.

[6] Drawings by Durand are held by the Royal Collection and the William Morris Gallery, London.