Rosa Bonheur was a French painter who was possibly the most (1) ........ female artist of the 19th Century. She was born in 1822 in Bordeaux, France and was the oldest child in a family of artists. Her father was a well-known painter and her mother, who died when Rosa was eleven, was a piano teacher. When she was 6 Rosa (2) ........ to Paris with her brothers and mother.
She was very (3) ........ at school and her father took her out of school and became her art tutor. Rosa (4) ........ some of the great paintings in the Parisian art galleries and became a very popular painter of animals. People could (5) ........ her work in French art galleries. One painting, 'The Horse Fair' which is a very large work that measures nearly three meters high by five metres (6) ........, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.