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Percival Rosseau
Lyme Art Colony
(1859–1937)
In Lyme: 1915-1937
Percival Leonard Rosseau (1859-1937) was born in 1859 in Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana. He studied at the Academie Julian, Paris with Lefebvre and T. Robert-Fleury and with H. Leon in Paris.
He returned to the United States in 1915. He painted in Old Lyme, Connecticut and in North Carolina where he had a summer home.
He was a member of the Lotos Club, the Lyme Art Association, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
He exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1900, 1906, and the Lyme Art Association, 1936. He won a prize at the 1900 Paris Salon for a nude, but later became best known for his paintings of animals especially field and hunting dogs. Rosseau had worked in a variety of occupations including cowboy, cattle driver, and commodities broker.
Percival L. Rosseau died in 1937.