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Born on 05 July 1885: André Lhote, French Cubist painter, sculptor, writer and educator, who died on 24 January 1962. He painted figure subjects, portraits, landscape and still life; he also was very influential as a teacher and writer on art. Born in Bordeaux, he was apprenticed in 1897 to an ornamental sculptor, and also studied...

 Louis-Léopold Boilly was the most gifted genre painter in France during the Napoleonic era and one of the period's most prolific portraitists. Boilly exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon (the State-sponsored exhibition of contemporary art) between 1800 and 1814 and won the recognition of a gold medal of the first class in 1804. This...