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When did Renoir start painting?

  • As a teenager

  • In his twenties

  • In his thirties

  • In childhood

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir began painting at age 13, after his parents sent him to work with a local artist, Charles Gleyre. He quickly became a talented painter, and by the time he was 18, he had been accepted into the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Renoir went on to become one of the most famous and influential painters of the Impressionist movement.
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