Alphonse Legros was a Franco-British painter, etcher and medalist, with close ties to realism. His artistic training began in his home town of Lyon, where he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts and was a pupil of Maître Nicolardo, a house and portrait painter. Around 1851 Legros moved to Paris to continue his studies there. On the way there he spent about 6 months as a journeyman with the decorator and painter Jean Baptiste Beauchot in Lyon. During this time Legros helped decorate the chapel of Cardinal Bonald. Arriving in Paris, Legros was accepted at the Petite Ecole of Lecoq de Boisbaudran, which would later become the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. There he made the acquaintance of colleagues like Charles-Antoine Cambon, Jules Dalou and Auguste Rodin. Legros also enrolled in evening courses at the École des Beaux-Arts. There he became friends with James McNeill Whistler.
Encouraged by his teachers, Legros first sent two portraits to the Paris Salon in 1857. Only one of them was accepted, the portrait of his father. This was the first public exhibition of his work for Legros. The author Champfleury, who was a great admirer of realism, became aware of the portrait in the Salon and invited Legros to become a member of the realist group around Gustave Courbet. Around the same time Legros began to devote himself increasingly to the art of etching. Two of Legros most famous works were "L'Angelus" and "Ex Voto". After his one-year study trip through Spain he joined the Societé des Aquaforistes in 1863. In later years Legros showed himself to be a supporter of study trips and saw them as an important part of his artistic development. He therefore gave part of his income to supplement a fund to finance such trips for students.
Legros settled in London in 1863 at Whistles' suggestion. There he first gave drawing and etching courses. Later he was accepted as a teacher at the Kensington School of Art. From 1876 he succeeded Edward Poynter as professor at the Slade School. He taught there for over 17 years. Some young female artists, who later became known as Slade Girls, were his students. Among them were the sisters Ella and Nelia Casella, Jessie Mothersole or Elinor Hallé. Legros received British citizenship in 1881. In 1892 he resigned from his professorship and devoted himself to the initial motifs of his work: landscapes, Spanish castles and French farms, as he knew them from his childhood.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1708554).jpg "Black Cat by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1289453).jpg "Self-Portrait (Third Plate) by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1708139).jpg "Portrait of the Painter G. F. Watts (1817-1904) by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1709046).jpg "Farm at the Monastery by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "The Dead Christ by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Lord A. Tennyson, 3rd Plate by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Peasant Woman of Boulogne (The Woman with the Basket) by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1707790).jpg "Rest along the Banks of the River by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1707326).jpg "Breton Peasant by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1707687).jpg "Head of Souliote by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Berenice, 2nd plate by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1709987).jpg "Study of an Old Man by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Head of a Man Facing Left by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "G.F. Watts, R.A. by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Head of a Man with a Skullcap by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "E.D. Adams, 3rd plate by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1249331).jpg "Landscape: Morning Mist by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "W.H. Longfellow, 1st Plate by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Leon Gambetta, 2nd Plate by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Auguste Rodin by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1710730).jpg "Sleeping Beggar by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Near Amiens, the Peat Bogs by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1339834).jpg "Woman Reading: Lesson under the Trees by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1713669).jpg "The Cooper by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1710308).jpg "Archeologist by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1721650).jpg "Hamlet near the Lake by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1708124).jpg "Death and the Woodcutter, 2nd plate by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1247202).jpg "Landscape: Road to Horville by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "The Triumph of Death: Death Prepares a Dwelling for the Homeless by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1247192).jpg "Edge of a Wood by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1360216).jpg "The Spanish Cantors, or The Lectern by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Portrait Head of Alfred Stevens by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "The Abbey Farm by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1707776).jpg "Landscape with Boat, 1st plate by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1251761).jpg "Woods in Winter Sun, 2nd Plate by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Landscape: Sunrise by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1711150).jpg "Portrait of G.F. Watts by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Job, 2nd Plate by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1709649).jpg "The Prodigal Son, 2nd plate by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Head of a Quarryman by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Auguste Poulet-Malassis, 2nd plate by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Head of Youth Looking Up by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Cupid and Psyche by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1714154).jpg "Death of the Vagabond by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1710932).jpg "Head of a Man by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Sunset Over the Hill, last half 1800s by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Mountains Seen Beyond a Lake by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1709900).jpg "Choir in a Spanish Church by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "The Big Trees by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1713803).jpg "The Refectory by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1707820).jpg "Farm with a Large Tree by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Edward Poynter by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Victor Hugo, 2nd Plate by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1714132).jpg "Death of the Vagabond by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Birch Trees: Water")
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.jpg "Jules Dalou, 2nd Plate by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1709657).jpg "Head of a Man by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "M. Champfleury by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "At the Foot of the Hill by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Mme. Kemp, 4th plate by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1708215).jpg "Head of a Man (Possible Portrait of Professor E.D. Adams) by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Birch Trees: Water")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1708904).jpg "Study of the Head of a Man Reading by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1719311).jpg "Fountain: Grotesque, Children and Basin by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1708798).jpg "Charity by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1248354).jpg "The Adoration of the Shepherds by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1709764).jpg "Head of an Old Man by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Two Monks Seated in a Church by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Head of Old Man by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Woman Seated against a Wall, Child with His Head in Her Lap by Alphonse Legros")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1708050).jpg "Canal Seen by Morning Light by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Leon Gambetta, 2nd plate by Alphonse Legros")
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.jpg "Job by Alphonse Legros")
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