French, 1845-1902

Benjamin Constant the French painter, was born in Paris, and studied under Cabanel. His first Salon picture, Hamlet et le Roi, was hung in 1869, and at once he became one of the recognized modern masters in France. In addition to a number of subject-pictures, such as jrop Tard (1870), Samson et Delilah (1871), and others taken from Moroccan studies, he was an eminent portrait painter of some of the most prominent men and women of the day, one of his last being that of Queen Victoria (1900). He was a member of the Institut de France and received several French and foreign decorations.