Académie Julian
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J. C. Leyendecker
Biography Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was one of the most prominent and financially successful American freelance commercial artists. He was born in Germany and immigrated to Chicago in 1882. He apprenticed at 16 to engraving house J. Manz & Co., producing his first commercial work, including 60 images for an illustrated Bible published by Manz.… Continue reading
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Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Biography Jules Joseph Lefebvre (14 March 1836 – 24 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist. Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his The Death of Priam in… Continue reading
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Cecilia Beaux
Biography Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral… Continue reading
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Marie Bashkirtseff
Biography Marie Bashkirtseff (born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva November 24, 1858 – October 31, 1884) was a Russian émigré artist who was born into a Russian noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine). She lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25. she grew up… Continue reading
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Thomas Anschutz
Biography Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Known for his portraiture and genre scenes, Anshutz was a co-founder of The Darby School. One of Thomas Eakins’s most prominent students, he succeeded Eakins as director of drawing and painting classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine… Continue reading
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