_Isabey_ (French: 1804-1886).
Eugène Gabriel Isabey (by whom there are several pictures in
the Wallace Collection) was born in Paris, the son of the
celebrated miniature-painter, Jean-Baptiste Isabey. He first
appeared as a genre painter; and "amid the group of Classicists
of his time, he had (says Dr. Muther) the effect of a beautiful
patch of colour." He afterwards took to sea painting, having
in 1830 accompanied the French expedition to Algiers as marine
draughtsman.
A characteristic example of the elegant facility with which the painter
rendered scenes involving gay attire.