French Legion of Honor
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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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Alexandre Cabanel
Biography Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter, receiving commissions as Napoleon III’s preferred painter. Cabanel was the son of a carpenter, and he began his apprenticeship at the… 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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Daniel Chester French
Biography Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. French was born… Continue reading
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