Eugene Louis Lami (1800 - 1890) France Watercolor on Paper Dated 1850 Measure 4 1/2"in H x 6"in W and 11"in H x 13"in W with frame Known for: Painting and sculpture Biography: Eugene Louis Lami was born in 1800. Lami was a painter, lithographer, decorator and above all a French watercolorist. Lami was a pupil of Horace Vernet, Baron Gros and Theodore Gericault. He learned watercolor from the English romantic painter Richard Parkes Bonington. Lami brilliantly illustrated the elegant life of the capital under the July monarchy and under the Second Empire. Eugene Louis Lami passed away in 1890.