Leon Bellemont was an influential painter known for his realist works that beautifully captured landscapes, urban scenes and portraits. Born in 1866 in the hilltop town of Langres, in the Haute-Marne, Léon Bellemont was trained as an artist by Léon Bonnat, a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1857 Bonnat had won the Prix de Rome for his Raising of Lazarus and specialised in portraits and religious subject-matter. He was best known for his depictions of religious scenes, for example ‘pardons’. Many of his paintings depict women and children wearing traditional white Breton dress. He also painted harbour scenes, still lives and interiors with figures. Throughout his life Bellemont rarely diverted from his individual style, which displayed elements from realism, Symbolism and Impressionism. He died in 1961, at Arc- en- Barrois.
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