Fredric Bazille

Jean-Frederic Bazille was born on the 06 December, 1842 in Montpellier, France in a wealthy family. He left home in the early 1860s to study medicine in Paris. Bazille gave up his study of medicine in 1864 for painting.

Frederic Bazille volunteered into the regular army during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and was killed at Beaune-la-Rolande.