Scottish , 1819-1894   Related Paintings of Gourlay Steell :. | Young Women on the Banks of the Seine | Portrait of Lady | Seascape, boats, ships and warships.36 | Portrait of lady with play harp | Cumaean Sibyl |
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Osborn, Emily Mary
English, 1834-1893
Eduardo Rosales Gallinas
Spanish , Madrid, 1836 - Madrid, 1873
Legros, Alphonse
French-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 During this period Legros had a taste for early Netherlandish art and for French Romanticism, which was later superseded by his admiration for Claude, Poussin and Michelangelo.