Firmin Bouvy

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Firmin Gaston Bouvy (born April 9, 1822 in Deinze , † November 4, 1891 in San Francisco ) was a Belgian genre painter and photographer.

Bouvy studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen and with Hendrick Joseph Dillens .

He exhibited it for the first time in 1843. From 1855 he gave up painting for photography. He traveled to Paris after 1859, then to Spain, Australia and South America before settling in San Francisco in 1881. One of his works, "Gil Blas", was kept in the Leipzig Museum , but destroyed on December 4, 1943.

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