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Adrien Charles Prosper D'Epinay

Adrien Charles Prosper D'Epinay (1836 - 1914) was active/lived in France, England.  Adrien DEpinay is known for Sculpture of royalty figures, caricature.

Charles Adrien Prosper Caïez d'Épinay was a French sculptor and caricaturist (under the name Nemo). Many of his clients were from the nobility and royalty. He was sometimes referred to as the "sculpteur de souveraines" (sculptor of sovereigns).

He was the son of Adrien d'Épinay, a lawyer and colonial politician. In 1839, his parents took him to France, where his father died suddenly a few months later. He returned to Mauritius with his mother and received his primary education there in Port Louis. In 1851, he went back to France with a former teacher as his legal guardian, to continue his studies,

In 1857, he decided to pursue a career in art and settled permanently in Paris; studying sculpture in the studios of Jean-Pierre Dantan and finding himself attracted to 18th century art. It was at that time that he also began to draw caricatures. Thanks to a scholarship, he was able to study at the French Academy in Rome, where he made studies of Classical sculpture under the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3343 characters.]  Artist bio

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