Éloi Firmin Féron (; 1802–1876) was a French

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painter. A student of

Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the ...

, he won the

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for his ''Damon et Pythias'' in 1826, aged "twenty-four and a half."''Annales de la littérature et des arts 1826''
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He went on to become a favourite of

Louis Philippe I Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, and the last French monarch to bear the title "King". He abdicated from his throne ...

and his sons and contributed to the galleries of

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., where most of his major works are now on exhibit, including ''Entrée de Charles VIII à Naples'' (1837), ''Bataille de Fornoue'' (1838), ''Prise de Rhodes'' (1840), besides various portraits.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Feron, Eloi Firmin 1802 births 1876 deaths French neoclassical painters 19th-century French painters French male painters Prix de Rome for painting 19th-century French male artists