Eugène Delacroix [SEP] place of death
of the few who was ever photographed.
Early life.
Eugène Delacroix was born on 26 April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Île-de-France, near Paris. His mother was named Victoire Oeben, the daughter of the cabinet-maker Jean-François Oeben.
He had three much older siblings.
Charles-Henri Delacroix (1779–1845) rose to the rank of General in the Napoleonic army.
Henriette (1780–1827) married the diplomat Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (1762–1822)
was an art collector who owned several watercolors by Eugène Delacroix, among other artists. His mother's parents ran Café de l'Amitié in Brussels, a meeting place for politicians, writers, and artists. All the Stevens children benefited from the people they met there, and the social skills they acquired in growing up around important people.
Education.
After the death of his father in 1837, Stevens left middle school to begin study at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where he knew François Navez,