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Artist Biography: 1841-1919. Born in Limoges, France. Renoir was a central figures to the Impressionist movement, his work was characterized by a richness of feeling, snapshots of real life, bright colour and light. During his youth, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him to paint designs on fine china. He often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters. He experienced initial acclaim when six paintings were hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. After traveling through Europe studying other painters like Eugéne Delacroiz, Diego Velázquez, Titian, and Raphael and developing his style he developed rheumatoid arthritis in 1892. In 1907, he moved to Les Collettes, a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, where he continued to painting in the last twenty years of his life. He developed many different methods to paint, including strapping a paintbrush to his paralyzed fingers, used a moving canvas or picture roll, and directing an assistant working in clay to create sculptures. It is said that the warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently-reproduced artworks. https://www.pierre-auguste-renoir.org/biography.html