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Birth
1860 (South Pacific (aboard ship))
Death
1899
Lived/Active
Massachusetts
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landscape, interiors, floral outdoor
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Impressionists Pre 1940
Paris Pre 1900
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John Leslie Breck was an early exponent of the "new painting", avant-garde style, of Impressionism. Born at sea on a clipper ship in the South Pacific, he had a father who was a captain in the U.S. Navy.
Breck grew up in the Boston area. He obtained his art training at the Munich Royal Academy, learning rapid brushstroke and dark Tonalism. Beginning in 1886, he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, and soon became one of the original settlers of the important Impressionist art colony i (showing 500 of 2832 characters). |
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