Paul François Quinsac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Paul François Quinsac
- Paul François Quinsac was born in Bordeaux on 2 March 1858.Quinsac was a painter of the French School known as Academic art, a specialist in mythological and allegorical subjects, figures and landscapes.
- He studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme and later he became professor at the School of Fine Arts of Bordeaux (École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux). From 1880 he exhibited regularly to the Hall of the French Artists of which he became a member in 1887.
- He received an honourable mention during the exhibition of 1884, a medal of third class to the World Fair of 1889, as well as a travel grant.
- He was named Chevalier de la légion d’Honneur in 1903.
- He died in Bordeaux in May 1929, aged 71.
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