Monticelli

Monticelli, ADOLPHE (1831-85), a noteworthy modern painter, 'creator of the phantom genre,' was born at Marseilles, studied at Paris, where he lived mainly till 1870. He subsequently settled in Marseilles, and died there in poverty. His paintings fall into three periods, of which the last and most characteristic is notable for masses of warm and gorgeous colouring, with vague, almost invisible figures—nymphs dimly discernible in luxuriant green meadows against a background of glorious cloud masses.