Couture Thomas
Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 - 30 March 1879), French academic painter, portraitist, history painter. Born in Senlis, in a poor family, he moved to Paris in 1826, at the age of 14 he began studying at the Ecole des Metiers et Arts, then worked in the studio of Gros. In 1831 he was admited at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, but after failing to win the Prix de Rome six times in a row, ...