Pierre Letuaire
Pierre Letuaire (6 August 1798, in Toulon – 2 September 1885, in Toulon) was a French painter, designer and caricaturist. Biography He was born to a family of craftsmen and merchants. In 1815, not long after graduating from the Collège de Toulon his father, a master toolmaker, died and he became head of the family; a disabled mother and three siblings.Guyot de Fère et Vallotton-d'André (dir.), ''Journal des beaux-arts et de la littérature'', Paris, 15 January 1842, p. 59. He worked primarily as a designer of letterheads, labels, and similar items. In 1823, he became a professor of design at his alma mater, the Collège. He would occupy that post until 1867.''Annuaire biographique des artistes français, peintres, sculpteurs, architectes, graveurs, musiciens'', Guyot de Fère et D. de B. [bon de Boissy]. Éditeur : bureau du ''Journal des beaux-arts'', Paris, 1841. During his tenure, he created free drawing classes, open to masons, carpenters and other professional trade ...
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