Birth Year:, 1518. Death Year:, 1594 Related Paintings of TINTORETTO, Jacopo :. | The Origin of the Milky Way | Judith and Holofernes ar | Judith and Holofernes (detail) s | Christ before Pilate | The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave | Related Artists:
Francis B. Carpenter1830-1900
C. Grunewaldpaint Portrait of Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann German photographer in 1858
Albert Besnard1849-1934
French
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(b Paris, 2 June 1849; d Paris, 4 Dec 1936). French painter, printmaker and designer. He was born to an artistic family and was precociously talented. In 1866 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Jean Franois Brmond (1807-68) and Alexandre Cabanel. His Salon dbut in 1868 and his subsequent entries were well received, and in 1874 he won the Prix de Rome with the Death of Timophanes, Tyrant of Corinth (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.). Remaining in Italy for five years, Besnard worked in an academic style influenced by Pietro da Cortona and Michelangelo.