Isidore bonheur biography of william hill

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Biography

French sculptor and painter, known as one of the most distinguished 19th-century French animalier sculptors. He began his career as an artist working with his elder sister Rosa Bonheur in the studio of their father, drawing instructor Raymond Bonheur.

Initially working as a painter, Isidore Jules Bonheur made his Salon debut in Born in Bordeaux, Jules was the third child of Christine Dorotheé Sophie.

The Horse Fair is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Rosa Bonheur, begun in and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in

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Isidore Jules Bonheur, French ( ) Bronze Sculpture, "Study from the Horse Fair", Signed in the Cast with Peyro.

Bonheur was born in Bordeaux (where her father had been friends with Francisco Goya who was living there in exile) but moved to Paris in at.

Initially working as a painter, Isidore Jules Bonheur made his Salon debut in 1848.

In Bordeaux his father had been friends with Francisco Goya who was living there in exile. In 1828 Bonheur moved to Paris with his mother and brothers and sister, his father having gone ahead of them to establish a residence and income.

Isidore-Jules studied painting at first, enrolling in 1849 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, though he made his debut at the Salon (Paris) in 1848 with a plaster and exhibited regularly until 1899.

He won medals in 1859, 1865, 1869, took part in the Exposition Universelle (1855), exhibited in London at the Royal Academy of Arts in the 1870s, where he gained great success with equine figur