Henri Fantin-Latour

Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French
painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists.
  Marcel Proust mentions Fantin-Latour's work in In Search of Lost Time.
He studied first with his father, a pastel painter, and then at the drawing school of [Horace] Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and later under Couture. He was the friend of Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet and others. He exhibited in the Salon of 1861, and many of his more important canvases appeared on its walls in later years, though 1863 found him with  Manet, Legros and Whistler in the Salon des Refuses. Whistler introduced him to English artistic circles, and he lived for some time in England, many of his portraits and flower pieces being in English galleries.

Pansies

Basket of Flowers

Gladiolas and Roses

Fairy Roses