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Artists in Alphabetical Order - "I"

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French painter regrettably often remembered as much for his graphical deformations such as the abnormally long (3 extra vertebrae) back of La Grande Odalisque rather than for his true genius as a painter whose creations displayed a sensuous and distinctive beauty  with a clarity and expressiveness unique to him.   He trained in the Toulouse Academy then as a student of David in Paris winning the Prix de Rome in 1801.   His initial works were portraits but in 1807 he went to Rome and started painting pictures of bathers, a theme he was to continue for a long while and for which he was to become renowned.    Later, 1812 on, he received some important commissions for large scale paintings for Napoleon's palace in Rome (1812), then, whilst in Florence, his Raphaelesque Vow of Louis XIII for the Cathedral of Montaubun and, after his return to Paris, The Apotheosis of Homer for a ceiling in the Louvre (1827).    He returned to Rome in 1834 as the Director of the French School staying there  for 7 years before finally returning to Paris in 1841.   He continued painting until well into his eighties producing great works such as "Turkish Bath" (1863) 

Internationally renowned 19th Century Dutch painter, a leader of the Hague School, noted for his scenes of life among the Dutch fishing and peasant communities.   Trained at the Academie Minerva in Croningen (1835-42), Koninklijke Academie in Amsterdam (1842-44 and 1847-50) and Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1845-47).   During his latter spell at Koninklijke Academie he painted Daydreaming ( 'Ophelia' ) which established his reputation.

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