Alphonse Legros

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Alphonse Legros was a 19th-century French-born painter, etcher, and sculptor who became a prominent figure in the British art world and a key promoter of printmaking.

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Alphonse Legros canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf etcher
painter
person
printmaker
sculptor
birthCountry France
birthDate 1837-05-08
birthPlace Dijon
deathCountry United Kingdom
deathDate 1911-12-08
deathPlace Watford
educatedAt École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
employer Slade School of Fine Art
familyName Legros
field etching
painting
printmaking
sculpture
givenName Alphonse
influenced British printmaking
Slade School etching tradition
knownFor portraiture
promoting etching in Britain
religious subjects
rural genre scenes
movedTo London
linked to: London, England
movedToCountry United Kingdom
movement Realism
name Alphonse Legros
nationality British
French
notableWork Ex Voto
Portraits of Charles Darwin
Portraits of George Eliot
Portraits of Thomas Carlyle
Portraits of Victor Hugo
Portraits of Whistler
The Angelus (etching)
linked to: The Angelus

The Tinker
occupation artist
etcher
painter
printmaker
sculptor
positionHeld Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art
residence England
London
linked to: London, England
studentOf Hippolyte Flandrin
workLocation London
linked to: London, England

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