Ion Andreescu

About

Acclaimed nineteenth-century Romanian artist. His Impressionist and Barbizon school-style paintings include The Red Scarf, Portrait of a Girl, and Beech Forest.

Before Fame

In his younger years, he studied with artist Theodor Aman. Later, he became an art teacher in Buzau, Romania.

Trivia

He painted numerous images of peasant women.

Family Life

He was born in Bucharest as the son of a Romanian merchant. He died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty two.

Associated With

In Paris, his paintings were displayed with those of renowned Impressionist painters Edouard Manet and Claude Monet.