François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Portrait of the Marchioness of Itamaraty; now in the Museu Histório e Diplomático in Rio de Janeiro.

Portrait of the Count of Itamaraty.

François-Claudius Compte-Calix, a French painter of genre subjects and portraits, was born at Lyons in 1813. He studied in the fine art school of his native city, and in the studio of J. C. Bonnefond, and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1840. His 'Vieil Ami,' painted in 1863, was in the International Exhibition at Paris in 1867. He died at Chazay d'Azergues near Lyons in 1880.

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This article incorporates text from the article "COMPTE-CALIX, François Claudius" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.