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Thomas Couture Biography

French Academic Classical painter, history painter, portraitist and teacher
born 21 December 1815 - died 30 March 1879
Born in: Senlis (Oise, Picardy, France).
Died in: Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France, France).

Student of: Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)
Teacher of: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), John LaFarge (1835-1910), Éduard Manet (1832-1883)

THOMAS COUTURE (1815-1879) was an influential French history painter and teacher.

He was born at Senlis Oise, France and at age 11, his family moved to Paris where Thomas Couture would study at the industrial arts school (École des Art et Métiers) and later at the École des Beaux-Arts. He failed the prestigious Prix de Rome competition at the École six times, but Thomas Couture painter felt the problem was with the École, not himself. He finally did win the prize in 1837.

In 1840, he began exhibiting historical and genre pictures at the Paris Salon, earning several medals for Thomas Couture paintings, in particular for his 1847 masterpiece, Romans in the Decadence of the Empire, now in the Luxembourg. Shortly after his success, Thomas Couture painter opened an independent atelier meant to challenge the École des Beaux-Arts by turning out the best new history painters.

During his lifetime, Couture taught such later luminaries of the art world as Éduard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.

Asked by a publisher to do an autobiography, Thomas Couture responded with words that are even more appropriate today: "Biography is the exaltation of personality --- and personality is the scourge of our time."

Thomas Couture died at Villiers-le-Bel, Île-de-France and was interred in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.