Jean de Botton had a long and prolific career as painter, illustrator and muralist. His successful career started in the 1920s and continued for four decades. Though he received a degree in Philosophy from the Lycée Rollins in Paris he went on to travel extensively and become a well-established artist. De Botton's early paintings display many of the characteristics of the age of Art Deco, incorporating romantic, allegorical, and historical themes with a modern technique. He executed many very large canvases in the 1920's. He also painted many stylized portraits. As the decades passed his style changed with the times; in the 1950s and into the 1960s he painted and exhibited many abstract compositions.

De Botton served on the ju...