(b Paris, 16 Feb 1841; d Paris, 26 June 1927). French painter and lithographer. He grew up in Moulins, but at 16 he returned to Paris to find work. Despite the opposition of his working-class family, he prepared for an artistic career while he supported himself in municipal jobs. He started drawing classes and then enrolled in the Acad?mie Suisse, where he met C?zanne and Camille Pissarro. Guillaumin began his career as an avant-garde artist by exhibiting with them at the Salon des Refus?s in 1863. He was also active in the Manet circle at the Caf? Guerbois, from which Impressionism developed.
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