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

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