Goseda Yoshimatsu

Goseda Yoshimatsu was a Japanese painter mainly active in the Meiji era.

Biography

In 1855, he was born in Edo, as a second son of who was a Yōga painter. In 1865, he became Charles Wirgman's pupil. In 1874, he was employed at Imperial Japanese Army Academy as a picture teacher by recommendation of Kawakami Tōgai. In 1876, he entered and became Antonio Fontanesi's pupil. In 1877, he left the school and won the Hōmon Prize in Yōga section of the first with Abekawa Fuji Zu. From 1878, he accompanied an to Hokuriku and Tokai as an attendant painter of Emperor Meiji.
In 1880, he went to France and became Léon Bonnat's pupil. In 1882, his work was accepted for the Salon, a famous exhibition. He is the first Japanese painter who was accepted for the Salon. In 1889, he returned to Japan via the United States of America and participated in the establishment of the. He participated in the First Sino-Japanese War. In 1915, he died in his own home in Yokohama.