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Following trips to Spain and the Middle East in the 1870s, Benjamin Constant returned to Paris and
succeeded his teacher Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1888, he took over from Boulanger at the
Académie Julian, where many American and British painters went to study.
At the same time Benjamin Constant started to abandon his brightly coloured
orientalist pictures in favour of portraits, and had considerable success in the
US and in England, where he painted the Queen. Latterly he also succumbed to the
lure of decorating public buildings.
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