Charles Gleyre

Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre, born in Switzerland in 1806, moved to France at a young age and became a pivotal, if reclusive, figure in 19th-century art. After his parents' early death, he was raised by an uncle in Lyon, where he began his artistic education. He later honed his skills in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and under Richard Parkes Bonington, before embarking on extensive travels through the Eastern Mediterranean with American traveler John Lowell Jr. from 1834…