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Hector Leroux
Louis Hector Leroux (27 December 1829, Verdun-11 November 1900, Angers) was a French painter in the academic art, academic style, affiliated by critics with the Neo-Grec#Painting, ''Néo-Grecs'' movement in art. He specialized in meticulously researched paintings of ancient Rome, especially depictions of women. He was best known for a series of some thirty paintings which spanned his entire career, depicting Vestal Virgin, Vestal virgins. His daughter, Laura Leroux-Revault, was also a painter. Education, years in Rome Born into a family of modest means in Verdun, Leroux was apprenticed to his father, a barber, before attending drawing classes at the Collège de Verdun, taught by a painter trained in the workshops of Antoine-Jean Gros and Michel Martin Drolling, who quickly spotted his talent. From 1849 to 1855, first the General Council of the Meuse and then the city of Verdun granted him annual scholarships to pursue his education in Paris. In 1849, at the age of twenty, he en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Leroux-Revault
Laura Leroux-Revault (née Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux) (14 September 1872 – June 1936) was a French artist and painter, trained at the Académie Julian art school in Paris. Her first teacher was her father, the painter Louis Hector Leroux. Her passion for William Shakespeare, Shakespeare and for the Middle Ages gained expression in her paintings which often show women dressed or positioned in ways that evoke medieval themes. Early life and Family Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux was born on 14 September 1872 at Dun-sur-Meuse. She was the daughter of Giuditta Clelia Casali and Louis Hector Leroux (1829–1900), a successful French painter. Her parents met when her maternal grandfather was the doctor who treated her father for wounds he received when serving in the Francs-tireurs, Francs-tireurs de la Seine in the Battle of Buzenval (1870), Battle of Buzenval, where his leg was broken by a projectile. She had a younger brother Nicholas. Their father painted a portrait of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
