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Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (April 26, 1798 - August 13, 1863) was one of the most important of the French Romantic painters. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. Also a skilled lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare and the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival, Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance.
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