Paul Delongpre by Hollywoodphotographs.com

Paul DeLongpre was born in Lyon, France in 1855. reared and educated in Paris and at the age of twelve, began painting flowers on fans.  In 1874, he married Miss Josephine Estivenard.  In 1896. he staged a watercolor flower painting exhibition in New York.  Three years later, he came to Los Angeles with his wife and three children, Alice, Blanche and Pauline.  He was an habitué of the bicycle and in his wanderings for flowers, often visited the Cahuenga Valley (later known as Hollywood(, where he met the Blondeau family. While exhibiting some of his paintings, he met...