Emmanuel Michel Benner, known as Many Benner (17 July 1873, in Capri – 12 November 1965, in Paris), was a French painter.
[1][2] Benner was born on the Italian island of Capri, where his father then lived as a member of a colony of artists.
A very precocious painter, he studied with Jean-Jacques Henner, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Tony Robert-Fleury (all acquaintances of his father and his uncle) before entering the École des Beaux-Arts at age 16 and winning second place at the Grand Prix de Rome in 1894, and again in 1898.
[1][2] Many Benner also served as the first director of the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner.
[3] Some of his paintings are kept in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse.