Guillaume François Colson, a French historical painter, and pupil of

David David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...

, was born in Paris in 1785, and died there in 1860. Among other works, he painted the 'Entry of General Bonaparte into Alexandria,' which is at

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. He also painted various family portraits and scenes of the upper classes in his idle moments, which could be seen as forerunners to artists such as Boudin and the Impressionists who were working decades later.

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* 1785 births 1850 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters Painters from Paris Pupils of Jacques-Louis David 18th-century French male artists {{france-painter-18thC-stub