Éloi Firmin Féron
French painter
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| Intro | French painter | |
| A.K.A. | Eloi-Firmin Feron Eloi Firmin Feron | |
| A.K.A. | Eloi-Firmin Feron Eloi Firmin Feron | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | 1 December 1802, Paris, Île-de-France, France | |
| Death | 1 January 1876Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, canton of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, arrondissement of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines (aged 73 years) | |
| Star sign | Sagittarius |
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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". 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.