French Academic Painter, 1827-1877 Related Paintings of Leon Belly :. | Les Sirenes | Pilgrims Going to Mecca. | Fellaheen Women by the Nile. | Femmes fellahs au bord du Nil (mk32) | Pilgrims Going to Mecca (san11) | Related Artists:
Helge Johanssonpainted Mantes, France in 1920
CHERICO, Francesco Antonio delItalian miniaturist, Florentine school (active 1450-1470)
Weeks Lord-Edwin189-1903
American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Jean-Leon Gerome, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering. He died in November 1903. He was a member of the Legion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.