Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 – 1875)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French artist and printmaker who painted landscapes and portraits. He was born in Paris to wealthy parents, his father was a wigmaker and his mother, a successful milliner. Although his father wanted him to become a merchant like himself, Corot showed no signs of any business acumen and in 1822, his disappointed father, decided to grant his son an allowance, which would give him the freedom to follow his own path in life. Corot studied art with Achille-Etna Michallon and later with, Jean-Victor Bertin, both followers of the neo-classical artist, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. Corot travelled to many parts of the world including Switzerland and Italy where he spent a lot of time, in and around Rome, preferring to paint and draw the scenery outdoors, on the spur of the moment, rather than in a studio.
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