Élisabeth Vérène le Bonnaire
Élisabeth Vérène le Bonnaire | |
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 Self-Portrait With Students by Élisabeth Vérène le Bonnaire | |
| Born | Élisabeth Vérène December 6, 1821 Althea, Loiraine, Laeral |
| Died | February 10, 1895 (aged 73) St. Clair, Aumont, Laeral |
| Resting place | Althea, Loiraine, Laeral |
| Nationality | Laeralian |
| Education | Académie de Saint-Pélagie |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Known for | Painting |
| Style | Rococo, Neoclassicalism |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Spouse | Jacques le Bonnaire |
| Children | Jean André le Bonnaire, Félicité de Hosset |
Élisabeth Vérène le Bonnaire was a prominent Laeralian portrait artist of the 19th century. She was extremely prolific, producing over 750 portraits, and over 100 landscapes, during her lifetime. The subjects of her portraits were largely members of the elite, including High Fellsian nobility and leaders of the Laeralian War of Independence and early Laeral.
Biography
Born in Althea in the duchy of High Fells in 1821, Élisabeth Vérène was the eldest daughter of a family of influential merchants. Although not nobility themselves, Vérène's father was a luxuries and antiquities dealer with many contacts among the nobility, while her mother was an artist. She was educated at a convent, where she first discovered her love of painting. At age 15, she was accepted to the Académie de Saint-Pélagie, an art school which had fallen on hard times. She was the third woman to attend.
By her late teens, Vérène was painting portraits professionally, with her father finding buyers for her art. One of her subjects was Louis-Armand de Boisgelin, a noble scion and senior servant at the Duke of High Fells's Spring Court.
