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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 13261766, member: 5833&quot;]I suspect not any, that he was completely, or nearly so, self taught.&nbsp; The family had a shop in Paris selling things like bronze statuettes &amp; lighting fixtures, so may have been raised with the expectation that he would continue in business.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cutting shell cameos came to be seen as something anyone with an artistic bent &amp; some facility at drawing could do reasonably well &amp; encouraged as a respectable pastime for well brought up young women &amp; men.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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