Brilliant, painting over 4,000 oil paintings in little more than 15 years, arrested as a French spy, and finally succumbed to bouts of heavy drinking and mounting debts.
pigs
Stories of Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, the miracle of the Gadarene swine, and St Anthony. And FΓ©licien Rops’ ‘Pornocrates’?
Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Morland, James Ward, Gustave Courbet, and others, showing plenty of pigs.
First shown at the Royal Academy when only 10, this true genius had a colourful but tragically short life.
