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75Paul Gauguin - Post-Impressionist Painter
Artist Paul Gauguin was born on June 7, 1848 in Paris, France. His family lived in Peru from 1851-1855 before moving back to France. When he was 17, Gauguin worked as a pilot’s assistant in the...
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70Georges-Pierre Seurat - French Neoimpressionist Artist
Artist Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. He attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1878 to 1879. He also attended Brest Military Academy in 1879. After he left school,...
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69Berthe Morisot - Female Impressionist Painter
Artist Berthe Morisot was born on January 14, 1841 in Bourges, France. Her father was a successful businessman and she had a sister, Edma. The family believed that they had the artist Fragonard in their...
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75Pierre-Auguste Renoir - French Impressionist
Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841 in Limoges, France. As a child of 13 he worked in a porcelain factory painting designs on fine china. In 1862, Renoir moved to Paris and studied art...
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64Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin - Impressionist Painter
Artist Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin was born on February 16, 1841 in Paris, France. He worked as a sales clerk in his uncle’s lingerie shop and studied sculpture with Caillouet. He also befriended art...
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66Paul Cezanne - Post-Impressionist Painter
Artist Paul Cezanne was born on January 19, 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence. His father was a successful banker. From 1852 to 1859, he attended College Bourbon where he became friends with writer Emile...
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66Edouard Manet - French Artist
Artist Edouard Manet was born on January 23, 1832 in Paris, France to a well-off family; his father was a judge who expected his son to follow in his footsteps and study law. In 1848, Manet sailed to Rio de...
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65Frederic Bazille - French Painter
Artist Jean Frederic Bazille was born on December 6, 1841 in Montpellier, France. Like many of the Impressionist artists he was born into a wealthy family. Supposedly, it was after seeing the paintings of...
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63Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - French Painter and Printmaker
Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on November 24, 1864 in Albi, France. He was born into an aristocratic family; his father was Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec was born...
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60Alfred Sisley - English Impressionist Artist
Artist Alfred Sisley was born on October 30, 1839 in Paris, France to English parents. He applied to become a French citizen several times during his life but was denied. In 1857, he was sent away to London...
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