Born in : Bayonne - 1833 / Dead in : Monchy-Saint-Éloi, 1922Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat educated under Madrazo in Madrid, Spain. He later worked in Paris, becoming known as a leading portraitist. He won a medal of honor in 1869, and became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, succeeding Paul Dubois as director in 1888.
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