Carolus-Duran was the name adopted by the French painter Charles Auguste Émile Durand (July 4, 1837 - 1917), who was born at Lille. John Singer Sargent (January 12 1856 &ndash April 14 1925 was the most successful portrait painter of his era During his career he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples Year 1837 ( MDCCCXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Lille (lil Rijsel is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest Metropolitan area in the country
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Biography
He studied at the Lille Academy and then at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and in 1861 to Italy and Spain for further study, especially devoting himself to the pictures of Velázquez. The Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts is a French Learned society. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez ( June 6, 1599 &ndash August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading His subject picture Murdered, or The Assassination (1866), was one of his first successes, and is now in the Lille museum, but he became best known afterwards as a portrait painter, and as the head of one of the principal ateliers in Paris, where some of the most brilliant artists of a later generation were his pupils. He took part in 1890 in the creation of the National Society of French Art (Société Nationale des Beaux Arts). Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts ( SNBA) was the term under which two groups of French artists united the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s the second since 1890 His Lady with the Glove (1869), a portrait of his own wife, was bought for the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. Musée du Luxembourg is a Museum in Paris, France. Situated near the Palais du Luxembourg, it once housed paintings and Sculpture In 1889 he was made a commander of the Legion of Honour. He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-arts in 1904, and in the next year was appointed director of the French academy at Rome in succession to Eugène Guillaume. Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume ( July 4, 1822 - 1905 was a French sculptor.
Major works
 Equestrian Portrait of Mademoiselle Croizette (1873) |  Madame Faydou and her Children (1897) |  Danae (1900) |  Study of Lilia(1887) |
 The Artist's Daughter, Marie-Anne (1874) |  The kiss (1868) |
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| Preceded by Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume | Director of the French Academy in Rome 1905–1910 | Succeeded by Vacant, then (from 1913) Albert Besnard |
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