Éloi Firmin Féron
Éloi Firmin Féron (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".[1]
He went on to become a favourite of Louis Philippe I and his sons, contributing much 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.
References
- ↑ Annales de la littérature et des arts 1826, p. 404.