Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) was a French painter. He was born in Paris in 1844 and died in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1889. He studied with the French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias (1822–1907), but left France in the 1870s, never to return. Tavernier was employed as an illustrator by Harper's Magazine, which sent him on assignment to California in the 1870s. Eventually he continued westward to Hawaii, where he made a name for himself as a landscape and portrait painter. He was captivated by Hawaii’s erupting volcanoes—a subject that was to pre-occupy him for the rest of his life, which was spent in Hawaii, Canada and the western United States. He is considered the most important artist of Hawaii’s Volcano School. His students included D.

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier

Jules Tavernier