About Prosper Barbot
Lived 1798 – 1878 (aged 80). Prosper Barbot was a French painter.
Prosper Barbot (21 May 1798, near Nantes - 12 October 1877, Chambellay) was a French landscape painter.
Biography His father worked for the Ministry of the Treasury. He studied painting in Paris, with Louis Étienne Watelet and Jules Coignet.
After 1824, he spent several years in Italy, where he met and worked with Jean-Baptiste Corot, Guillaume Bodinier and Louis Léopold Robert. Following a trip to Sicily, he submitted two paintings to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, View of the Ruins of Agrigento and View of the Roman Amphitheatre in Taormina, for which he received a gold medal.
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Who was Prosper Barbot?
French painter (1798-1878)
When was Prosper Barbot born?
Prosper Barbot was born on 21 May 1798 in Nantes.
When did Prosper Barbot die?
Prosper Barbot died on 12 October 1878 in Chambellay.
What was Prosper Barbot's occupation?
Prosper Barbot was a painter.
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Prosper Barbot was French.
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