Musée No:318.043 Size:A5 - 210mm x 148mm and Director of the Jardin

and Director of the Jardin botanique de l’Université de Liège

At the age of 16 he became an apprentice at a local lawyer's office in Norwich but devoted his spare time to studying and drawing insects and

He was very successful with his work and was called the 'Rembrandt' among the Dutch flower bulb painters

His break came when some of his sketches were shown to the Duke of Cumberland who then employed him to draw the horses at his stud in Newmarket and Windsor

Musée No:318.043 Size:A5 - 210mm x 148mm and Director of the JardinNormandy Flowers Artist: Henri Fantin Latour Date: 1887 Henri Fantin Latour (1836 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings, portraits and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. He studied at the cole des Beaux Arts in Paris, then from 1854 he devoted himself to copying the works of the old masters in the Louvre. Although he was friends with several artists that would go on to become the Impressionists,