William-Adolphe Bouguereau
(November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. He seemed destined to join the family business but for the intervention of his uncle Eugene, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. Bouguereau showed artistic talent early on and his father was convinced by a client to send him to the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, where he won first prize in figure painting for a depiction of Saint Roch. To earn extra money, he designed labels for jams and preserves Related Paintings of William-Adolphe Bouguereau :. | The Elder Sister | Portrait of Zenaide de Cambaceres | Depiction of a soul being carried to heaven by two angels | Daisies | The Virgin of Consolation | Related Artists: Francisco de Herrera the Younger1622-1685
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Francisco de Herrera Gallery Antonio Ciocifl.1739-92
Jose Jimenez Aranda (February 7, 1837 - May 6, 1903) was a Spanish painter.
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Name Jimenez Aranda, Jose
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Date of birth February 7, 1837
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Date of death May 6, 1903
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