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: (100)
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Aime-Jules Dalou - Alphonse Legros c. 1876-1879 bronze National Gallery of Art French
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Alphonse Legros Title page from 50 Impressions of 10 Etchings by Alphonse Legros Etchings 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Alphonse Lalou (Sculptor) 19th - 20th century
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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 Le Menege Etching circa 1870
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Alphonse Legros Le Bapteme Etching 1869
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Alphonse Legros La Morte de St. Francis Etching 1869
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Alphonse Legros Le Penseur Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Self-Portrait Drypoint-etching 1880
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Alphonse Legros Un Ancienne Auberge 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Reflectoire Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros La Ferme de L'Abbaye 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Morne a l'orgue Etching 1869
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Alphonse Legros La Morte de St. Francis Etching 1869
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Alphonse Legros Men in battle 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Man asleep under trees Drypoint 1870
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Alphonse Legros La Paysage a la Mare Etching 1869
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Alphonse Legros Jules Dalou 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros L'orage Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Thomas Carlyle 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Les Mendiants Anglais Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Children Playing Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros L'orage Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros La Paysage aux Meuse Drypoint-etching 1869
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Alphonse Legros Head of a Satyr (Fountain) Etching 1883
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Alphonse Legros Head of a Satyr (Fountain) Etching 1883
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Alphonse Legros The Plough Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros La Mort du Vagabond Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Jouer de coutre-basse Etching 1869
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Alphonse Legros Man chopping tree 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Landscape with river 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros La Paysage au Bateau Drypoint-etching 1869
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Alphonse Legros L'Incendie Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Extase poetique Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Sundown etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Mouton Retrouve 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Self-Portrait Etching and drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros La Morte et le Bucheron Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Les faisers de fagots Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Etude de tete d'homme 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Paysanne se lavant le pieds 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le denicheur d'oiseaux Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Bonhomme Misere Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Portrait of Edward J. Pointer, R.A. Etching-drypoint 1877
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Alphonse Legros Repose du Voyageur Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Grand Espagnol Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Ramasseurs de Champignon Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Mendiants Anglais Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros La Lecture de l'office Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Portrait of G.F. Watts, R.A. Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Pecheur a la ligne Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Moutons Retrouve Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Sur le haut de la colline Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Portrait of Hector Berlioz Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Aged Spaniard Drypoint-etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Portrait of Leon Gambetta Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros The Banks of the Somme near Amiens Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Jules Dalou Etching-drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Portrait of Sir Seymour Haden Mezzotint 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Paysages, Brumes de Matin Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Profile, man facing left, half length Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Fisherman wading in a wooded stream Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Portrait of Edward J. Poynter, R.A. Drypoint-etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Fisherman wading in a wooded stream Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Artist: Alphonse Legros Title: Portrait of a Man Date: 19th century Medium: red chalk Dimensions:
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William Rothenstein Portrait of Alphonse Legros Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Le Bonhomme Misere (Death calling the peasant from the tree) Etching 19th - 20th century
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Alphonse Legros Portrait of Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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FÈlix Bracquemond Alphonse Legros Etching on chine collÈ 1861
Museum of Fine Arts -
Alphonse Legros, French, 1837-1911 Portrait of a bearded man late 19th century Pen and green
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Edward J. Steichen - Alphonse Maria Mucha 1901 gum platinum print The Royal Photographic Society American
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William Strang The Preacher Etching 1889
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William Strang The Flagellation DP 1911
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Karl-Ernest-Rodolphe-Heinrich-Salem Lehmann - Portrait of Clementine (Mrs. Alphonse) Kerr 1845 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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William Strang Mealtime etching 1883
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William Strang He Was Imprisoned Etching 1888
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William Strang The Prodigal Son etching 1882
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William Strang Christ at Emmaus 1898
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William Strang The Connoisseurs etching 1920
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William Strang The Tinkers etching 1882
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William Strang The Wine Drinkers 1904
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William Strang Self-Portrait etching 1895
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William Strang The Ape - The Don Quixote Series 1902
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William Strang The Ape - The Don Quixote Series 1902
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William Strang Man and witch drypoint 1891
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William Strang The Traveller etching 1882
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William Strang The Phantom etching 1890
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William Strang The Prodigal Son etching 1882
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William Strang Mealtime etching 1883
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William Strang The Traffic drypoint 1899
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William Strang The Mother etching 1884
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William Strang The Resurrection etching 1887
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William Strang The Preacher etching 1889
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William Strang The Wine Drinkers 1904
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William Strang The Nativity etching 1901
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William Strang By the River etching 1888
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William Strang The Windmill Etching and aquatint 1902
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William Strang The Mill etching 1888
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William Strang His Timmer Staff etching 1888
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William Strang Clavileno etching and aquatint 1902

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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