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Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761 –1845)

• Was a French painter and draftsman.
• Boilly was born in La Bassée in northern France.
• He was the son of a local wood sculptor.
• A self-taught painter, Boilly began his career at a very young age, producing his first works at the age of twelve or thirteen.
• A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings,
• His life and work spanned the eras of monarchical France, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy.
• He was awarded a medal by the Parisian Salon in 1804 for his work The Arrival of a Mail-coach in the Courtyard of the Messageries.
• In 1833 he was decorated as a chevalier of the nation's highest order, the Légion d'honneur.
• The displayed paintingis a crop from: Louis-Léopold Boilly, A Girl at a Window - after 1799.
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