CAROLUS-DURAN

carolus-duran, the name adopted by the french painter charles auguste emile durand (1837- ), who was born at lille on the 4th of july 1837. he studied at the lille academy and then went to paris, and in 1861 to italy and spain for further study, especially devoting himself to the pictures of velasquez. his subject picture "murdered," or "the assassination" (1866), was one of his first successes, and is now in the lille museum, but he became best known afterwards as a portrait-painter, and as the head of one of the principal ateliers in paris, where some of the most brilliant artists of a later generation were his pupils. his "lady with the glove" (1869), a portrait of his own wife, was bought for the luxembourg. in 1889 he was made a commander of the legion of honour. he became a member of the academie des beaux-arts in 1904, and in the next year was appointed director of the french academy at rome in succession to eugene guillaume.