Eugene Delacroix
French Romantic Painter, 1798-1863
For 40 years Eugene Delacroix was one of the most prominent and controversial painters in France. Although the intense emotional expressiveness of his work placed the artist squarely in the midst of the general romantic outpouring of European art, he always remained an individual phenomenon and did not create a school. As a personality and as a painter, he was admired by the impressionists, postimpressionists, and symbolists who came after him.
Born on April 28, 1798, at Charenton-Saint-Maurice, the son of an important public official, Delacroix grew up in comfortable upper-middle-class circumstances in spite of the troubled times. He received a good classical education at the Lycee Imperial. He entered the studio of Pierre Narcisse Guerin in 1815, where he met Theodore Gericaul Related Paintings of Eugene Delacroix :. | Algerian Women in their Apartments | The Lion Hunt (mk09) | Woman with a Parrot _o | Mlle Rose | Portrait of the Artist (mk05) | Related Artists: FERRARI, DefendenteItalian painter, Piedmont school (b. ca. 1490, Chivasso, d. after 1531) Jean Henri De CoeneJean Henri De Coene, a Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects, was born at Nederbrakel in 1798. Jean Lecomte Du NouyFrench Painter and Sculptor, 1842-1923,was an orientalist French painter and sculptor. He was Charles Gleyre's and Jean-Leon G??rome's pupil. A Paris street was named after him in 1932.
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