William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Was one of the last well known French academic painters of what is now called the Classical Realism school (Academicism Movement).
He was very fond of Raphael's artwork and even copied one of his works on his way to winning the coveted Prix de Rome in 1850. He was a well known and well established artist but was lost in history to the emergence of Impressionism (Which he Opposed) during the later years of his life.He had an extreme love for art and painted 826 paintings during his life.