Artist: Alphonse Legros (1837 - 1911)
Nationality: French
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Media: Painting, Printmaking
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Biography:
Alphonse Legros was born in France but moved to England in 1863. He became a citizen in 1881, but never completely grasped the English language. He worked as a professor of etching at the Slade School from 1876 to 1892 where he encouraged the study of the Old Masters.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Alphonse Legros, Title page from 50 Impressions of 10 Etchings by Alphonse Legros, 19th - 20th century
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Aime-Jules Dalou - Alphonse Legros c. 1876-1879 bronze National Gallery of Art French
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Alphonse Legros, Alphonse Lalou (Sculptor), 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Le Bapteme, 1869
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Alphonse Legros, Self-Portrait, 1880
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Henri Fantin-Latour - Portrait of the Artist Alphonse Legros 1856 oil on linen Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Alphonse Legros, La Morte de St. Francis, 1869
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FÈlix Bracquemond, Alphonse Legros, 1861
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Alphonse Legros, Le Menege, circa 1870
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Alphonse Legros, La Paysage au Bateau, 1869
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Alphonse Legros, La Paysage aux Meuse, 1869
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Alphonse Legros, La Morte de St. Francis, 1869
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Alphonse Legros, Morne a l"orgue, 1869
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Alphonse Legros, Man asleep under trees, 1870
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Alphonse Legros, La Paysage a la Mare, 1869
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Alphonse Legros, L"orage, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Le Reflectoire, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Portrait of Edward J. Pointer, R.A., 1877
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Alphonse Legros, Sundown, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Le Penseur, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, The Plough, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Head of a Satyr (Fountain), 1883
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Alphonse Legros, L"Incendie, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Head of a Satyr (Fountain), 1883
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Alphonse Legros, L"orage, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Le Jouer de coutre-basse, 1869
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Alphonse Legros, Self-Portrait, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Men in battle, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Extase poetique, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Children Playing, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Aged Spaniard, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Le Moutons Retrouve, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Jules Dalou, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, La Mort du Vagabond, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Jules Dalou, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, La Ferme de L"Abbaye, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Un Ancienne Auberge, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Les Mendiants Anglais, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Le Bonhomme Misere, 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros, Le Mouton Retrouve, 19th - 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Five New Painting Galleries to Open
The V&A has remarkable collections of eighteenth and nineteenth century British landscape paintings and watercolours (the national collection of watercolours is held at the V&A). Three galleries will focus on the image of landscape in Britain as...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome
A strong sense of their city's cultural centrality encouraged Rome's 18th-century civic and religious leaders to construct or embellish numerous churches, palaces, fountains, public plazas (piazze), gardens and gallerie...

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