Félicie de Fauveau
Born: Florence, 1799
Died: Florence, c. 1886
Nationality: French
Died: Florence, c. 1886
Nationality: French
Background:
daughter of a Breton banker
Studies:
with painters Louis Hersent (1777-1860) and Claude Guillot (Paris)
Career:
1827 – Christina of Sweden Refusing to Spare the Life of Her Equerry, Monaldeschi wins second place medal at Paris Salon
1830 – participates in the anti-revolutionary royalist uprising in the Vendée
1832 - imprisoned for royalist sympathies
1834 – flees Paris, settles in Florence
Travels:
Brussels (1834); Florence (1834-86)
Important Artworks:
Louise Favreau, 1858 (formerly in Santa Croce, Florence)
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