Évariste-Vital Luminais

Évariste Vital Luminais (French pronunciation: [evaʁistə vital lyminɛ]; 13 October 1821 – 10 or 15 May 1896) was a French painter. He is best known for works depicting early French history and is sometimes called "the painter of the Gauls". == Life and career == Luminais was born in Nantes into a parliamentary and legal family. His great-grandfather Michel Luminais was an official in the Vendée; his grandfather Michel-Pierre Luminais represented the Vendée in parliament from…