Man in a small boat on a gentle river in autumn.

Alexandre Jacob was born in 1876 and died in Paris in 1972. He undertook his formal training at the Beaux-Arts Academie with Eugene Claude (1841–1923). Jacob lived just outside Paris in Asnières- sur-Seine, on the banks of the river Seine. The Seine and the rural countryside around this area is the subject of much of Jacob’s landscapes. Jacob debuted at the Paris Salon of 1899.

Jacob was awarded the Hors Concours at the Salon of 1908 at the Exposition Annuelle des Beaux-Arts and his work appeared in the Salon regularly gaining numerous awards and distinctions for his work.
Predominantly a landscape painter, and gained his rare understanding and love for nature through studied inspection, transferring his observations skillfully on to canvas. His masterful evocation of light, atmosphere, colour and sense of place are remarkable and have a true ability to transport the viewer.