Benjamin Ulmann, French

France

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 (Alsatian

Alsace

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) Jewish

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 painter, born at Blotzheim

Blotzheim

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 (Haut Rhin) in 1829, was a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling

Michel Martin Drolling

Michel Martin Drolling was a neoclassic French painter , painter of history and portraitist.-Biographie:He was born in Paris. There he began painting under the supervision of his father, the painter Martin Drolling, then after 1806 he studied with Jacques Louis David. For his Colère of Achilles...

 and of François-Édouard Picot

François-Édouard Picot

François-Edouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.-Life:Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome painting scholarship in 1813...

, and entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1849. He gained the prix de Rome

Prix de Rome

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 in 1859, and profited much by his studies in Italy

Italy

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. He exhibited a number of works at the Salon from 1855 onwards, chiefly portraits and historical subjects, and was commissioned to paint some pictures for the Palais Royal

Palais Royal

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 and for the Palais de Justice. His Sylla and Manus is in the Luxembourg Palace

Luxembourg Palace

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, and other works by him are in the Museums of Mans

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, Marseilles, Melun

Melun

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, and Colmar

Colmar

Colmar is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.It is the capital of the department. Colmar is also the seat of the highest jurisdiction in Alsace, the appellate court....

. He died in 1884.

External links

• Benjamin Ulmann in the collection of the Dahesh Museum of Art