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Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture (1815 - 1879) was active/lived in France.  Thomas Couture is known for History painting, teaching, writing.

French, 1815-1879

Born in Senlis in 1815, Thomas Couture was encouraged by his shoemaker father, Jean, to become a scholar or academician. Proving to be a disappointment to the family because his seeming lack of intellectual promise, Jean focused on teaching an older son the classics.  Thomas grew up with a basic insecurity about his education, and he consistently wavered between a desire to show up authority with his independence, and a need to impress with his erudition.  About 1828 Couture matriculated in the École gratuite de dessin at the Conservatoire des arts et métiers on Rue Saint-Martin in Paris.  He was inculcated with the ideal of combining art and technology, and later he executed designs for the applied arts and encouraged his students to follow his example. Couture studied under Antoine Gros (1771-1835) from 1830-1835, and following Gros's suicide, switched to the atelier of Paul Delaroche (1797-1856).  He was officially registered at the École   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3255 characters.]  Artist bio

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