Louis FOURNIER
He is a prime example of those small masters who did honour to French painting long ago. He was trained early in the workshop of the famous Alexandre Cabanel, herald of the academic style, before following his own path as an artist, academic as well. His main glory was was winning the Prix de Rome in 1881. But Louis Édouard Paul Fournier, born in Paris in 1857, also won prizes in 1885, 1889 and 1900 during those great exhibitions that went with art history at the time. Nowadays, some of his works can be admired in different museums, in Aix, Belfort, Morlaix, Saint-Brieuc, Sens, Périgueux and Paris for example. The Funeral of Shelley, one of his most beautiful paintings, is exhibited at the Museum of Liverpool.