Louis mignot biography

The career of Louis RémyMignot defies easy categorization. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Mignot studied painting in the Netherlands, began his professional career in the fold of the Hudson River School (specifically, in the Tenth Street Studio Building), painted in the Andes alongside Frederic Church, and experimented with European aestheticism toward the end of his life.

Celebrated for his delicate use of color and atmospheric depiction of space, Mignot was held up as the equal to Church himself.

After the pair’s South American sojourn, a critic summarized the prevailing feeling that “Mignot has fearlessly entered on a race with Church…It may yet be ‘neck and neck.’” Mignot again came to the forefront of the art world in 1996, when the North Carolina Museum of Art mounted a major retrospective of his life and work.

Despite the fame that he achieved during his lifetime, Mignot inherited varying posthumous critical fortunes. This is now attributed to the premature nature of hi