Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay

His father, Joseph Jan Baptiste de Bay, 1829, was an eminent sculptor who worked in Paris and locally in Nantes.

[1] Debay learned sculpting from his father at an early age, but started his career as a historical painter.

[2] On August 28, 1817, he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited his first portraits to The Salon at the age of thirteen.

[2] Attribution: Media related to Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay at Wikimedia Commons

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