Eugene Louis Gabriel Isabey, painter and lithographer, was born in Paris and studied under his father the well known painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855). He shared a studio with the landscape painter Xavier Leprince at Houfleur in 1824. On the death of his friend he moved to Saint-Simeon and exhibited some landscapes for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1827. Became court painter to King Louis-Philippe gaining the Legion d’Honneur in 1832. Among his many students were the later to become famous artists, Eugene Boudin, Johan Barthold Jongkind and Durand-Brager. Eugene Isabey is widely recognised as one of the greatest masters of the development of nineteenth century landscape lithography. There was a major exhibition of his landscapes of Normandy and Brittany at the Louvre in 2012.