CHARLES GLEYRE – Teacher of Monet, Renoir, Sisley (HD) (2)

Welcome to “I am Jenny” Your Guide to Visual Art, where you can find out about artists and art movements. Gleyre was born in Chevilly, near Lausanne. His parents died when he was eight or nine years old, and he was brought up by an uncle in Lyon, France, who sent him to the city’s industrial school. He began his formal artistic education in Lyon under Bonnefond, before moving to Paris, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts under Hersent. He also attended the Académie Suisse and studied the watercolor technique in the studio of Richard Parkes Bonington. He then went to Italy, where he became acquainted with Horace Vernet and Louis Léopold Robert.