Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1911
The story goes he bought this farm to stop the old olive trees being pulled up for a flower nursery, then spent his last years painting the place. By then his hands were badly arthritic — apparently brushes had to be wedged into them for him.
Tilla Durieux by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1914
She was apparently one of the most famous stage actresses in Europe, and sat for this just weeks before the First World War broke out. They say his arthritis was so bad by then that he worked with the brush wedged into his bandaged hand.