James
Tissot was born in France in 1836. He became an artist but fled to
London during the Paris Commune. Tissot
worked with Carrington Bowles, a reporter
with the Morning Post, on the book,
The Defence of Paris.
When Bowles started Vanity Fair Tissot
was recruited as an artist. Along with Carlo
Pellegini (Ape), Tissot helped to create the unique style of the
magazine. After 1885 Tissot devoted himself to religious subjects
and produced the illustrations for The Life
of Our Saviour Jesus Christ. James
Tissot died in 1902.
James Tissot,
Prince Bismarck (1870)
Available from Amazon Books
(order below)
