Camille Corot
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (16 july 1796 - 22 february 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Thaddeus Sholto had a landscape painting which was is a genuine Corot (SIGN 529).
