Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Jules Breton across 7 places, from 1827 to 1906.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French naturalist painter.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Jules Breton is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Jules Breton was documented, and when
1 May 1827exact date
Courrièresattested“Breton was born on 1 May 1827 in Courrières, a small Pas-de-Calais village.”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
1843year
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent)attested“Breton left for Ghent in 1843 where he continued to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts with de Vigne and the painter Hendrik Van der Haert.”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
1846year
Antwerpattested“In 1846, Breton moved to Antwerp where he took lessons with Egide Charles Gustave Wappers and spent some time copying the works of Flemish masters.”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
1864 to 1911period
Provenceattested“According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition 1911, Breton was essentially a painter of rustic life, especially in the province of Artois, which he quit only three times for short excursions: in 1864 to Provence, and in 1865…”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
1864 to 1911period
Brittanyattested“According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition 1911, Breton was essentially a painter of rustic life, especially in the province of Artois, which he quit only three times for short excursions: in 1864 to Provence, and in 1865…”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
1880year
Courrièresattested“Whereas, in 1880 Vincent van Gogh was so poor he walked on foot 85 kilometers to Courrières to pay a visit to Breton, whom he greatly admired, but turned back, put off by Breton's high wall.”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
1886year
New Yorkattested“In 1886, Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, bid $45,000 at a New York auction for Breton's work The Communicants (1884).”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent)1 presence · 1843
Other places tied to Jules Breton in the record
In each of these, a source puts Jules Breton and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Jules Breton was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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1847year
École des Beaux-Artsmentioned“In 1847, he left for Paris where he hoped to perfect his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts.”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
1848year
Gaulmentioned“His first efforts were in historical subjects: Saint Piat preaching in Gaul then, under the influence of the revolution of 1848, he represented Misery and Despair.”source: Wikipedia: Jules Breton
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