Brief Biography-Václav Brožík was from Tremosyna, Bohemia. He began his studies at the Art Academy of Prague, and from there, he went to the Munich Art School. Finally, in 1876 he moved to Paris to study under Leon Bonnat and the guidance of fellow countryman Jaroslav Čermák. He was a historical painter but indulged in portraiture without great commercial success.
In Prague, he became a professor at the Art Academy and Emperor Franz Joseph I raised him to the status of nobility in 1878 due to his historical subject. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and received the Légion d’Honneur in 1884. He died at the young age of forty-nine, and his remains lie in Paris .