Constant, Benjamin, a highly popular French painter of the Realistic school, born at Paris; his first picture was “Hamlet and the King”; afterwards he took chiefly to Oriental subjects, which afforded the best scope for his talent; occupies a high place in the modern French school, and has been promoted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour; (b. 1845).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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