École des Beaux-arts
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Henri-Camille Danger
Biography Henri-Camille Danger (1857 – 1939) was a French artist known for history paintings, allegorical and mythological subjects, genre scenes, landscapes and designs for tapestries. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Aimé Millet, and exhibited his work at the Paris Salon from 1886 to 1937. Danger was awarded the Prix… Continue reading
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Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
Biography Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (ANG-grə; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. He was accomplished as a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, but… Continue reading
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Léon Bonnat
Biography Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur, art collector and professor of many notable artists at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris. Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, where his father owned… Continue reading
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John Singer Sargent
Biography John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from… Continue reading
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Édouard Joseph Dantan
Biography Édouard Joseph Dantan (26 August 1848 – 7 July 1897) was a French painter in the classical tradition. He was widely recognized and successful, even receiving praise from a contemporary Modernist painter and critic Walter Sickert. Édouard Joseph Dantan was born on 26 August 1848 in Paris. His grandfather, who had fought in the… Continue reading
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Kenyon Cox
Biography Kenyon Cox (Oct. 27, 1856 – March 17, 1919) was an American painter and art critic, known for his murals and decorative work. Cox was a pupil of Carolus-Duran and of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris from 1877 to 1882, when he returned to New York City, subsequently teaching with much success in the Art… Continue reading
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Frederick William MacMonnies
Biography Frederick William MacMonnies (September 28, 1863 – March 22, 1937) was an expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States. He was also a highly accomplished painter and portraitist. He was born in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York and died in New… 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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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Biography William-Adolphe Bouguereau (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was an academy trained French painter. His intensive study of technique, history and mythology and a decades-long dedication to the craft of painting brought him fame in much of Europe and the United States. He was highly prolific, completing over 800 paintings, and he was… Continue reading
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Jean-Léon Gérôme
Biography Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was “arguably the world’s most famous living artist by 1880.” The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. He is considered one of the… Continue reading
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