1. Felix Thomas was born in Nantes and after graduating from high school Clemenceau, he studied architecture and drafting at the Polytechnique before being admitted to the Beaux-Arts where he studied art under Louis-Hippolyte Lebas.
12 Facts About Felix Thomas
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Felix Thomas turned to full-time painting in his later life and is noted for works within the Orientalist genre.
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Felix Thomas subsequently studied art at Beaux-Arts where he was a pupil of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas who specialised in the history of architecture.
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In 1845, Felix Thomas won the first Prix de Rome for a project in Architecture Cathedral.
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Felix Thomas was expected to describe the monuments and buildings that were discovered as well as to carry out quantity surveys, draw plans, prepare sketches and generally assist with documentation and drawings.
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Felix Thomas was required to make casts and stampings of inscriptions, using the new and still secret procedure developed by Lattin de Laval.
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Victor Place, the new French Consul in Mosul hired Felix Thomas to join the expedition as the project designer.
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Felix Thomas made substantial contributions to the success of the excavation through his acute observations, the boldness of his reconstructions and the quality of his drawings which contributed to a rich understanding of the architecture of the Palace.
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On his return to France, Felix Thomas gave up archaeology and devoted himself to painting.
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Felix Thomas joined the studio of Charles Gleyre who became his mentor.
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Felix Thomas enjoyed only modest success in his second career as a painter.
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Felix Thomas is known for the illustrations provided to several important archaeological texts.