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Constantin Guys (born Ernest-Adolphe Guys de Saint-Hélène, December 3, – December 13, ) was a French Crimean War correspondent, water color painter and illustrator for British and French newspapers.

Biography

Guys was born and baptized in Vlissingen, the son of François Lazare Guys and his second wife, Elisabeth Bétin.

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He traveled widely--from Bulgaria to Egypt to Turkey--covering military campaigns and conflicts, and sent back sketches to England to be.

Constantin Guys was a French Crimean War correspondent, water color painter and illustrator for British and French newspapers.

His father had been appointed civilian chief of the French Navy in Rochefort in and was stationed in Vlissingen from until , after which the family moved to Calais. At the age of 20, Constantin served in the cavalry, but only a little later toured in Greece with Lord Byron.

His career as an artist didn't start until he was about

Baudelaire called him the "painter of modern life," and wrote a long essay on Guys in which he extensively praised his works, under the pseudonym "Monsieur G".

Robert de Montesquiou wrote a review of Guys that acknowledged Baudelaire's essay, compared Guys favorably to Whistler, and emphasized his portra