About the Author

Gerald Ackerman lives in California. Renowned specialist in nineteenth-century academic art, he is also the author of several books published by ACR Edition, including The Life and Work of Jean-Leon Gerome, with a second French edition revised and updated, and a paperback edition in English ('Jean-Leon Gerome, His Life, His Work'), 'The Orientalists of the British School' and 'The Orientalists of the American School'. Graydon Parrish is a renowned figurative painter, famous in the United States for his allegory often reproduced, 'Remorse, Despond, and Acceptance of An Early Death, the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts'.