DUPRE, JULES (1811-1889), French painter, and one of the chief members of the Barbizon group of romantic landscape painters, was born at Nantes, and died at L'Isle Adam, Oct. 6, 1889. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic as pect of the poetry of nature, Dupre is the exponent of her tragic and dramatic aspects. He was the son of a porcelain manufac turer and started his career in his father's works, whence he went to his uncle's china factory at Sevres. Dupre exhibited first at the Salon in 1831, and three years later was awarded a second-class medal. In the same year he came to England, where he was deeply impressed by the genius of Constable. From him he learnt how to express movement in nature ; and the district of Southampton and Plymouth, with its wide, unbroken expanses of water, sky and ground, gave him good opportunities for his special gifts. Late in life he changed his style, and gained appreciably in large ness of handling and arrived at greater simplicity in his colour harmonies. Among his best known works are the "Morning" and "Evening" at the Louvre, the early "Crossing the Bridge" in the Wallace collection, and the "River Scene" now in the Tate Gallery, London.
See Jules Claretie, Peintres et sculpteurs contemporaiins (end series, 1884)•