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Henri Rousseau
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Henri Rousseau
French
1844-1910
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He was born in Laval in the Loire Valley into the family of a plumber. He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music. He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. In 1871, he was promoted to the toll collector's office in Paris as a tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art. His wife died in 1888 and he later remarried.
Rousseau claimed he had "no teacher other than nature", although he admitted he had received "some advice" from two established Academic painters, Felix Auguste-Clement and Jean-Leon Gerome. Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to be a naive or primitive painter. Related Paintings of Henri Rousseau :. | Monkeys in the Virgin Forest | The Hungry lion attacking an antelope | View of Malakoff | Promenade in the Forest of Saint-Germain | View of the Chair Factory and the Seine Quay at Alfortville | Related Artists: leigh huntBritish writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
Synonyms: Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt Charles - Theodore FrereFrench, 1814 - 1888 Joseph-Siffred Duplessis1725-1802
French
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French painter. He trained with his father, an amateur painter, and then with Joseph-Gabriel Imbert (1666-1749), a pupil of Charles Le Brun. In 1744 he went to Rome and worked with Pierre Subleyras. He remained there until at least 1747 and possibly until the death of his master in 1749. He must have learnt portrait painting in Rome, but he also painted landscapes, because Joseph Vernet advised him to specialize in this genre.
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