Bernard Romain Julien was a French printmaker, lithographer, painter and draftsman. Julian was born in Bayonne on November 16, 1802. Between 1815 and 1818 he trained in painting in his hometown and then moved to Paris, where from 1822 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris under the leadership of Antoine Jean Gross. Between 1833 and 1850 he exhibited a number of paintings and drawings at the Paris Salon, but mainly on lithographs, for which he was also famous.
