Biografie von Edward Louis GRENET (1857-1922)
Birth place: San Antonio, TX
Death place: probably Paris, France
Addresses: Paris, France
Profession: Painter, illustrator, teacher
Studied: briefly in NYC and with Bouguereau, Robert-Fleury, in Paris.
Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1884, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1894; AIC, 1894-95, 1907; London (medal); Nantes (medal); Rennes (medal).
Comments: Born of French parents. Established portrait studio in San Antonio, 1878; also painted some Texas genre scenes. He settled in Paris, c.1884.
Sources: WW15; P&H Samuels, 195, list alternate birth dates of 1856 or 1859; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 348-49.