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Early Days:

    Bonheur was born in Bordeaux, Gironde, and the eldest child in a family of artists. Her father Raimond Bonheur was a landscape and portrait painter and an early adherent of Saint-Simonianism, a Christian-socialist sect that promoted the education of women alongside men. The Saint-Simonies also prophesied the coming of a female messiah. Her mother Sophie (née Marquis) who died when Rosa Bonheur was only eleven had been a piano teacher. Bonheur's younger siblings included the animal painters Auguste Bonheur and Juliette Bonheur and the animal sculptor Isidore Jules Bonheur. That the Bonheur family was renowned as a family of artists is attested to by the fact that Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin used the Bonheurs as an example of "Hereditary Genius" in his 1869 essay of the same title.

Personal Details Name Rosa Bonheur Place of Birth Bordeaux, France Date of Birth 16 March 1822 Date of Death 25 May 1899 (aged 77) Movement Realism Field Painting, Sculpture Works Ploughing in the Nivernais, The Horse Fair

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