Louis Édouard Fournier

Louis Édouard Fournier (12 December 1857 – 10 April 1917) was a French painter and illustrator.

Fournier studied with Alexandre Cabanel, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Gustave Boulanger.

[1] In 1881 he won the first prize of the prestigious Prix de Rome with a painting with the subject of Achilles' anger appeased by Minerva.

[3] Fournier also created many mosaic friezes, considered at the time milestones in French art.

One of his most famous works is The Funeral of Shelley (1889; held by the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool), shown here.

The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Édouard Fournier (1889); pictured in the centre are, from left, Trelawny , Hunt , and Byron