Duran

Duran, Carolus, a French painter, was born in 1837 at Lille. After studying- in Paris, in Rome, and in Spain, where he was considerably influenced. by the paintings of Velasquez, he exhibited in 1866 I'Assassine, for which he received a medal. He afterwards devoted himself to portrait-painting, among his most successful portraits being one of his wife and one of Madame Leydcau (1870).