Alexis Comperet (Alexis Compera, American 1856 to 1906)
Alexis Comperet, also known as Alexis Compera, was a Denver painter, born in South Bend, Indiana. then moved to Colorado. Around 1874 he traveled to Paris. In 1879 he spent a brief time in New Mexico and did several works of the Grand Canyon, returning to Denver to teach for a short period at the Colorado Academy of Design He moved to San Diego in 1906 and died the same year.
Information courtesy of Treadway/Toomey Auctions, September 2000.