Thomas Eakins.
Edgar degas called himself a realist, but as his eyesight got worst his art style became more impressionistic.
There are many painters that became famous post mortem. Some are El Greco, Henry Darger, and Paul Penils. These painters all were famous after they died.
By the impressionists (particularly by Pissarro), but he never became a true impressionist.
John Locke
Sounds like Paul Cézanne, although he was not an impressionist in the strict sense of the term.
Paul Cézanne
He wanted to be a watercolor artist. He was pretty good...but he was a realist painter in the era when only abstractionists were being taken seriously. You can google "Hitler watercolors" and see them.
Ensor Rothko is an abstract artist. Rothko was a large part of the movement of American painters and he eventually became known as an Abstract Expressionist.
rome started out as a monarchy, then became a republic, then became an empire.
shooting started in 1950 when the badminton started
No-one REALLY started sport it just became a general catergory
Buddha started out as a Prince, he became a wandering ascetic. after enlightenment he became a teacher.