biography
| name: |
Tissot, James Joseph Jacques
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pronunciation:
[teesoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1836–1902)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Nantes, W France. He trained in Paris, where he was influenced by Degas, then in the 1870s settled in London, painting highly accomplished scenes of Victorian life. As a result of a visit to Palestine in 1886, he produced a series of the life of Christ in water-colour. |
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