Goseda Yoshimatsu

In 1855, he was born in Edo, as a second son of Goseda Hōriū [ja] who was a Yōga painter. In 1865, he became Charles Wirgman's pupil. In 1874, he was employed at Imperial Japanese Army Academy as a picture teacher by recommendation of Kawakami Tōgai. In 1876, he entered Engineering Technology Art School [ja] and became Antonio Fontanesi's pupil. In 1877, he left the school and won the Hōmon Prize (鳳紋賞) in Yōga section of the first domestic industrial exposition [ja] with Abekawa Fuji Zu (阿部川富士図). From 1878, he accompanied an Imperial tour [ja] to Hokuriku and Tokai as an attendant painter of Emperor Meiji.

In 1880, he went to France and became Léon Bonnat's pupil. In 1882, his work was accepted for the Salon, a famous exhibition. He is the first Japanese painter who was accepted for the Salon. In 1889, he returned to Japan via the United States of America and participated in the establishment of the Meiji Art Society [ja]. He participated in the First Sino-Japanese War. In 1915, he died in his own home in Yokohama.