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Raymond Bonheur

Raymond (Oscar-Raymond) Bonheur (1796 - 1849) was active/lived in France.  Raymond Bonheur is known for Portrait painting, drawing teacher.

The following information by Clarence Cook tells of the relationship between Raymond Bonheur and his famous daughter and animalier, Rosa Bonheur.

A girl of something over ten, of sturdy build, with a dark complexion, deep blue eyes, and strong features crowned by a head of clustering curls, is sitting in the window of a plainly furnished room, high up in an apartment-house in Paris. In a cage at her side is a parrot, which, with its head on one side, is gravely calling out the letters of the alphabet, while the child as gravely repeats them, interrupting the lesson every now and then by a visit to the other side of the room, where a pet lamb greets its young mistress with a friendly bleat.

This is our first glimpse of Rosalie, known now to all the world as Rosa Bonheur, the painter of The Horse Fair and of many another picture, which have earned for her the distinction of the best animal-painter of her time.

Her father's family belonged to Bordeaux. Raymond   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16025 characters.]  Artist bio

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