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His younger sister Jeanne, like her father, painted pastoral scenes of farm yards and flocks of sheep. André, the oldest, was primarily an accomplished painter of horses. All three children followed their father to pursue a career as a painter. They had two children, Jeanne and Èdouard. In 1872, Antonio married Lagny dressmaker Léontine Augustine Frappart.

In 1870 at the pinnacle of the Franco-Prussian War and the death of Angéline, Antonio and his son would move back to the safety of the city to escape the perils of the war. Shortly after the birth of their son in 1866, Antonio and his young family would leave Paris to settle in Lagny, a small village east of Paris in Seine-er-Marne region where he would open a studio and became recognized as a painter of country scenes and farm animals. They would have a son André, who was born in Paris. While in the city, Antonio would marry his first wife, Angéline Cécile Berger. In 1855, Antonio traveled to Paris to attend the Exposition Universelle and fell in love with the French people and countryside. CortèsĬortès' father, Antonio Cortès, who was born is Seville, Spain was a successful painter for the royal court in Spain.

After 1910, Cortès signed his paintings Èdouard Cortès, Ed Cortès or simply E. After the death of his father in 1908, Cortès would revert to using Èdouard.

He would use the name Henri for several years signing his early paintings Henri, Henri Èdouard or Èdouard H. His birth certificate recorded the child as Èdouard Leon Cortès, but at the age of six weeks he was baptized Henri Èdouard Cortès. Èdouard Leon Cortès was born in Lagny, France on Auginto a family of artists and artisans. “I was born from and for painting…” Èdouard Cortès