Dutch painter (b. 1607, Den Haag, d. 1669, Den Haag) Related Paintings of LISSE, Dirck van der :. | Leopold I, King of the Belgians | Saint Catherine | The Bay of Uri from above Brunnen | Taxi Rank, | Portrait of Diderot | Related Artists:
Gillis MostaertFlemish Northern Renaissance Painter ,
b. ca. 1534, Hulst, d. 1598, Antwerp
Wjatscheslaw Grigorjewitsch Schwarz1834-1869
Realism,Russian
Legros, AlphonseFrench-born British Painter and Sculptor, 1837-1911
British etcher, painter, sculptor and teacher of French birth. He is said to have been apprenticed at the age of 11 to a sign-painter, at which time he may also have attended classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. He was employed as assistant on a decorative scheme in Lyon Cathedral before moving in 1851 to Paris, where he worked initially for the theatre decorator C. A. Cambon (1802-75). He soon became a pupil of Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose methodical instruction and liberality in fostering individual talent proved of lasting benefit to Legros. In 1855 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, attending irregularly until 1857. During this period Legros had a taste for early Netherlandish art and for French Romanticism, which was later superseded by his admiration for Claude, Poussin and Michelangelo.