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Facts

Born September 20, 1819 • Samaná • Dominican Republic
Died October 8, 1856 (aged 37) • Paris • France
Movement / Style Neoclassical art • Romanticism

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“The Two Sisters,” oil painting by Théodore Chassériau, 1843; in the Louvre, Paris
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Wilhelm von Kaulbach.
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Théodore Rousseau
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Philip James de Loutherbourg
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William Blake
William Blake
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J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
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Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
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Allston, Washington: Moonlit Landscape
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