Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 - December 3, 1919), a preeminent French painter.
Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894 - February 12, 1979), a film director and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir is a famous French impressionist painter, associated with the Impressionism movement along with his friends Monet, Sisley, and Bazille.
Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, on February 25, 1841 as a child of a working class family.
Renoirs first encounter with painting dates from his childhood he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talent led to him painting designs on china.
Renoir made it clear that the mistrusted the combination of Pissarro and Gauguin and that to be associated with Gauguin at an exhibition would cause his canvases to fall by 50% in value.
Renoir wrote to Durand-Reul in May 1884 announcing that he was planning to go to Paris to hold a meeting of a new society which he was attempting to inaugurate.
Renoirs last submission on the Salon, in 1890, was a double portrait of the daughters of Catulle Mendès at the piano, and his first bought by the French State, the Young Girls at the Piano, both deal with the theme of leisure.
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