Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin: (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903)

Paul Gauguin, born in Paris, France to Clovis Gauguin and half-Peruvian mother Aline Maria Chazal. The domestic affairs of France drove Paul and his family to his mothers native Peru, in Lima Paul's influences flourished. Eventually Paul moved back to France, Orleans specifically where he joined the military to fulfill his mandatory service, after returning to Paris he took a job in the financial trading industry. In 1873 he married Mette Sophie Gad, with whom he had 5 children over the following decade.

Through his acquaintance with Camille Pissaro in the early 1880's, Paul painted with Paul Cezanne and had since quit his stock trading to paint full-time. Through earlier influences by Cezanne and a distaste for modern Impressionist art, Gauguin took on the style of Post-Impressionism. His friend Vincent van Gogh, whom he met in 1888 helped give way to his style, one that he felt had much needed symbolism. In 1903 Paul was sentenced to three months jail time and a fine, by the church and state, he died of syphilis before the sentence began.