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, on every her member kindness of but her such own as famil that y , but kindness to others gave possessing them , you no claim must
learn it from those who have shared her bounty , for you will never know a word of it from herself .
In the amplest biography of a living celebrity , much that would show the nobleness of a character in the most striking light can
the not , artist for obvious of whose reasons life , the be present given to sketch the public will offer ; and a in brief the outline case of ,
her rooted , dislike to being written about will continue to prevent many interesting particulars from becoming industrious known , which mi hers ght
otherwise have fallen under the pens of biograp . But sbmild the intention of writing , for publication after her death , a memoir that shall reallset forth the inner personal life of the
artistbe carried into execution y by , perhaps the only person who from , her position , and her long and intimate connexion with the
minutest details of the artist's life , is competent to do justice to the whose lessons subject fame , of those a will life who rep go lete down come with to after noble coming us teachings will ages learn as , , that from one the of the she great the instructive bri painter ghtest iffced ,
as glories an artist of the , and present that , her was moral as admiralble worth was a woman no less transcendant as was g than her Rosalie genius Bonheur . as she is styled in her acte de naissance _, was born
, mond times in Bordeaux Bonheur carried , on , off a the young the 16 th hi painter of hest March honours of , great 1822 promise at . the Her exhibitions , father who , had Oscar several of Ray his - g
native townbut whose talent and good looks formed his only patrifamilies mony , devoted of , the part lace of as his a time means to g of iving supporting drawing his lessons aged in parents several ,
p , who were entirely dependent on his exertions for support . Among his lished pupils and was amiable Mademoiselle irlbetween Sophie whom Marques and the , a beautiful handsome , accom young - g
drawing p , -master , there soon , sprang up a mutual attachment , which poverty though — opposed resulted by in their the marri young age lad . y ' But thrown s famil the y entirel lad on y's account famil their y prove of his d
resources inexorable . , and Four the children young — coup Rosalie le were , Auguste , Isidore y , on and Julietta own —followed this unionand Raymond Bonheur , who had produced
, to some sacrifice pictures his that dreams had of attracted fame to the attention humbler in necessit Paris , was y of compelled providing
bread for his family , and abandoning the higher labors of his art , devoted himself , almost exclusively , for eight years , to the teaching
of Bonh At drawing e t u r , s p . erio d , wild Ros alie activ , or e , as impetuous she has always child , called impatient herself of * every Rosa
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/14/