Éloi Firmin Féron
French painter (1802-1876)
Éloi Firmin Féron (French pronunciation: [elwa fiʁmɛ̃ feʁɔ̃]; 1802–1876) was a French neoclassicist painter.
A student of Antoine-Jean Gros, he won the Prix de Rome for his Damon et Pythias in 1826, aged "twenty-four and a half."
He went on to become a favourite of Louis Philippe I and his sons and contributed to the galleries of Versailles., where most of his major works are now on exhibit, including Entrée de Charles VIII à Naples (1837), Bataille de Fornoue (1838), Prise de Rhodes (1840), besides various portraits.
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