<a href="https://findartvalue.com/artist/narcisse-virgile-diaz-de-la-pena">Diaz de la Peña</a>'s Spanish parents, who were political refugees, died by the time he was ten years old, and Narcisse was sent to Bellevue to live with a pastor's family. Because of a snake bite, his left leg had to be amputated when he was thirteen. In 1825, he became an apprentice colorist in Arsène Gillet's porcelain