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BENJAMIN CONSTANT (1845-1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 987 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENJAMIN
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CONSTANT (1845-1902)  ,
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French painter, was
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born in
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Paris, and studied under
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Cabanel . His first
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Salon picture, "
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Hamlet et le Roi," was hung in 1869, and he became at once one of the recognized
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modern masters in
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France . In addition to a number of subject-pictures, such as " Trop Tard " (187o), "
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Samson et
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Delilah " (1871), and others taken from Moroccan studies, he was an eminent painter of portraits of some of the most prominent men and
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women of the
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day, one of his last being that of
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Queen
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Victoria (1900) . He was a member of the Institut de France and received several French and
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foreign decorations .

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