Surname: Breton Forename(s): Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis b. 1 May 1827. d. 5 July 1906. Nationality: French. VIAF.
Genre and landscape painter. Born in Courrières, Pas-de-Calais, France. Studied under
Félix de Vigne, Horace Vernet, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and at the Royal Academy
of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Received the Order of Léopold of Belgium and the Légion
d’Honneur. Member of the Institut de France. Exhibited at the Paris Salon and Exposition
Universelle and received several medals for his work. Married married Elodie de Vigne
in 1858. Biographical information: Benezit; Jules Breton,Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Breton (27 July 2021). (CC)