William-Adolphe Bouguereau: French: 1825-1905) was an academic painter who focused primarily on the female figure and completed over 800 paintings in his lifetime, although many of these are now lost. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects.
Bouguereau studied with Louis Sage, who studied with Jean- Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Bouguereau’s students include Cecilia Beaux, Arthur Wesley Dow and Henry Ossawa Tanner. He married his best student, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, an accomplished and award-winning artist in her own right.

