1. Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre, was a Swiss artist who was a resident in France from an early age.
11 Facts About Charles Gleyre
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Charles Gleyre took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including Henry-Lionel Brioux, Jean-Leon Gerome, George du Maurier, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Louis-Frederic Schutzenberger, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Toulmouche, and James McNeill Whistler.
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Charles Gleyre's parents died when he was eight or nine years old, and he was brought up by an uncle in Lyon, France, who sent him to the city's industrial school.
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Charles Gleyre began his formal artistic education in Lyon under Bonnefond, before moving to Paris, where he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Hersent.
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Charles Gleyre attended the Academie Suisse and studied watercolour technique in the studio of Richard Parkes Bonington.
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Charles Gleyre then went to Italy, where he became acquainted with Horace Vernet and Louis Leopold Robert.
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Charles Gleyre returned to Lyons in shattered health, having been attacked with ophthalmia, or inflammation of the eye, in Cairo, and struck down by fever in Lebanon.
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In spite of the success of these first ventures, Charles Gleyre retired from public competition, and spent the rest of his life in quiet devotion to his artistic ideals, neither seeking the easy applause of the crowd, nor turning his art into a means of aggrandizement and wealth.
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Charles Gleyre had an "infinite capacity of taking pains", and when asked by what method he attained to such marvelous perfection of workmanship, he would reply, "En y pensant toujours".
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Charles Gleyre did not charge his students a fee, although he expected them to contribute towards the rent and the payment of models.
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Charles Gleyre left a considerable number of drawings and watercolours, and a number of portraits, among which is the sad face of Heinrich Heine, engraved in the Revue des deux mondes for April 1852.