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Realistic acrylic painting of the French painter Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (Bayonne, 20 June 1833 - Monchy-Saint-Éloi, 8 September 1922),... more
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Realistic acrylic painting of the French painter Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (Bayonne, 20 June 1833 - Monchy-Saint-Éloi, 8 September 1922), painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 120 cm and part of a permanent collection.
Bonnat was born in Bayonne but lived between 1846 and 1853 in Madrid, where his father ran a bookshop, and where he became a pupil of the well-known painter Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz. At twenty-one, he went to Paris and started working in the studios of Léon Cogniet and Hippolyte Delaroche. From 1858 to 1860, he stayed in Rome, where he met Edgar Degas and Gustave Moreau, among others. Later, he also travelled to Greece and the Middle East. After returning to France, he started working as a teacher at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. His pupils included Edvard Munch, Gustave Caillebotte, John Singer Sargent, Peder Severin Krøyer, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Eakins, Alphonse Osbert, Erik Weren...
For almost 33 years now, Paul Meijering has been active with the paint brushes. As a 17- year old inspired youngster he joined the Academy of Arts in Enschede (Holland) in order to receive a native training in drawing- and painting technique. At that time (1980) the tendency of the abstract was running riot, and to his dismay and disappointment Paul found that the trade of the ancient masters was merely 'old hat', the realistic art being disregarded and looked down upon. After two years of useless botchery, there was only one conclusion to draw: "get autodidact, be a self-taught person!" Paul then left the academy to work for a living, but at the back of his mind there always loomed the passion of his life: to paint. At his spare time...
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