Léon Bonnat
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 - September 8, 1922) was a French painter.
He was born in Bayonne, and educated under Madrazo in Madrid, Spain. He lived in Madrid from 1846 to 1853, where his father owned a bookshop.[1] He later worked in Paris, where he became known as a leading portraitist. His long series of portraits shows the influence of Velázquez and the Spanish realists. He won a medal of honor at Paris in 1869, where he became one of the leading artists of his day. Bonnat went on to become a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1888. In May 1905 he succeeded Paul Dubois as director.
His vivid portrait-painting is his most characteristic work, but his subject pictures, such as the Martyrdom of St Denis in the Pantheon, are also famous.
Some of Bonnat's more notable students include: Gustave Caillebotte, Georges Braque, Aloysius O'Kelly, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.[2]
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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Footnotes
- ^ http://www.artfact.com/features/viewArtist.cfm?aID=24684 ArtFact. Retrieved November 27, 2006.
- ^ http://wwar.com/masters/b/bonnat-leon.html World Wide Arts Resources. Retrieved November 27, 2006.
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