Ary Renan

Cornelius Ary Renan (1857–1900) was a French Symbolist painter and anti-clerical social activist.

He studied with Elie Delaunay and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (a one time student of his grandfather).

The Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris holds a significant number of his works.

[1] His Symbolist masterwork The Diver – The Coral Fisherman dating to 1882, was purchased by the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio in 2014.

It evolved into the Ligue des bleus de Bretagne which grew in Brittany from dissatisfaction with the conservative and clerical bias of the existing Breton Regionalist Union, founded a few months earlier.