Firmin Eloi Feron, a French painter, born in Paris, Dec. 1,1802. He studied under Gros, and received the great prize in 1825 for his picture of "Damon and Pythias." Among his subsequent works are "Hannibal in the Alps" (1833),The Resurrection of Lazarus" (1835), and "Christ arrested by Judas" and "Souvenir of Tunis (1855). Many of his pictures are in the museum of Versailles, and he was a favorite painter of Louis Philippe and his sons; but his reputation has declined.