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A CANAL WITH A FISHERMAN By ALPHONSE LEGROS

A CANAL WITH A FISHERMAN
By ALPHONSE LEGROS (1837-1911)
IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON

England, in Alphonse Legros, gained what was lost by Charles Chaplin, for whereas the latter was an Englishman who became a naturalised Frenchman, Legros was a Frenchman who became by naturalisation a citizen of Great Britain.

Legros was born at Dijon, where his father was an accountant. He was in the habit of visiting his relatives on various farms, and the peasants he met and the scenes he viewed were afterwards made the subjects of many paintings and etchings. He received his first lessons in art at a school in Dijon, and later was apprenticed to a house decorator and painter of images. In 1851, on his way to Paris to take up another situation, he worked for six months with the decorator Beuchot, who was painting the Chapel of Cardinal Bonald in the Cathedral. He studied in Paris with Cambon, the scene painter, and later attended evening classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1857 his portrait of his father appeared in the Salon. Two years later his " Angelus" was exhibited, and was the first of those simple pictures of Church worship by which he became so well known. He came to England in 1863, married an English wife the following year, and gained his living by etching and teaching. He became teacher of etching at the South Kensington School of Art, and subsequently Slade Professor at University College, where he taught for seventeen years, and exercised a wise and wholesome influence upon the pupils who were fortunate enough to come under his instruction. Two of his pictures, " Femmes en Priere" (one of his characteristic church interiors), painted at University College, and a " Portrait of Mr. John Gray," are familiar to visitors at the Tate Gallery,

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot A Flood	Leonardo Da Vinci Monna Lisa	Edouard Detaille The Dream	Henri Fantin-Latour Flowers
Thomas Gainsborough Queen Charlotte	Thomas Gainsborough The Market Cart	Jean Baptiste Greuze The Head of a Girl	Jean Baptiste Greuze Fidelity
James Clark Hook Home With the Tide	Alfred William Hunt Windsor Castle	Josef Israels The Shipwrecked Mariner	B.W. Leader The Stream in Summer-time
Madame Vigee Le Brun Portrait of the Artist	Alphonse Legros A Canal With a Fisherman	Anton Mauve Watering Horses	J.L.E. Meissonier The Cavalier
Sir J.E. Millais Speak! Speak!	Sir J.E. Mallais My First Sermon	George Morland The Reckoning	George Morland The Inside of a Stable
Murillo The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin	Alfred Parsons When Nature Painted All Things Gay	Ralph Peacock The Sisters	Rembrandt Syndics of the Cloth Merchants' Guild
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John Singer Sargent Miss Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth	Lady Stanley (Dorothy Tennant) His First Offence	Jan Steen Grace Before Meat	Marcus Stone On the Road from Waterloo to Paris
Constant Troyon Watering Cattle	H.S. Tuke "All Hands to the Pumps"	Velazquez King Philip IV. of Spain	S.E. Waller Sweethearts and Wives
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