William Yeats Ihrig

I was born in Tampa, Florida in 1996. While I was growing up, I studied Latin and Greco-Roman mythology; my school books often used reproductions of nineteenth-century paintings as illustrations. I was thus introduced to painters such as John William Waterhouse and Frederic, Lord Leighton. At the age of 14, I began taking drawing lessons at the Vosler Young Artists' Studio. After graduating high school, I moved to Florence, Italy and studied at the Angel Academy of Art, from which I was graduated in the spring of 2018. I am currently studying in Paris. 

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