Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains
Image courtesy of
The National Gallery of Art, U.S.A

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Real Name:
Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix

Nationality:
French

Movement or School:
Romanticism

Education:
Delacroix studied art under Pierre Guérin. He was trained in neoclassic styles of painting but was more influenced by the more colorful styles of early Flemish and Italian painters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Théodore Géricault and Paolo Veronese.

Life/Lifestyle:
He was born on April 26, 1798 in France. He traveled to North Africa in 1832, providing him with an expanded variety of subjects in his art. He was not much of a teacher.  He died in Paris on August 13, 1863 without any successors.

Contribution to Portraits and Figures:
His technique involved the contrast of colors with small brush strokes, which became an important influence on impressionists, and used modern, and exotic subjects from literature. Many of his paintings were of animals, but most of his pieces are of people.

Famous Pieces:
An Orphan Girl in the Graveyard