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Julius Adam II [1852-1913] was born into a long line of painters. In 1872, he began his formal art training, and he soon had a reputation as a cat painter. The urban society, living in apartments and town-houses, sought after cat paintings, as they represented the pampered life, whereas horse paintings reflected a more rural time. Adam had a great emotional connection to the cats he painted, which was seen in the famous self-portrait that shows him painting with a family of kittens crawling all over him. |